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Before you open the book, let the first letter find you. Kierra reads from the opening pages — a letter written from your Heavenly Father’s perspective, drawn straight from Scripture.

Kierra Gray reading from The Thoughts I Think Toward You

✦ From Letter One

To My beloved child,

whose name I carried in My heart before I ever said, “Let there be light” — before the mountains were formed and before I laid the foundations of the earth. I am God before the world ever knew you.

I knew you before your story unfolded in time. I saw every page before you took your first breath. You already occupied My thoughts.

I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. I knew the sound of your laugh before anyone heard it. I knew the color of your eyes before they opened. I knew the gifts I would place within you before you did a single thing. I knew the purpose I would weave through your life before a single day had been lived.

You were never hidden from Me. When you were being formed in secret, My eyes were upon you. When your heart began to beat, I heard every rhythm. When your body was being knit together in your mother’s womb, My hands were involved in every detail.

You call it development, but I call it wonder.

Your Heavenly Father

Jeremiah 29:11

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