You Are Not Invisible, God Sees You & Calls You Loved
Love is not just an action, but a state of being. Karin Hadadan, best-selling author of Beauty in the Stillness, writes about God’s divine love and how it’s embodied in us daily.
God not only loves us, but His entire essence is love—it is His very identity. When we can trust God’s inherent nature as reliable, steadfast, and certain, we develop an intimate connection through all seasons and experiences in life. From this foundation, we can rely on Him through everything, understanding that every part of our lives stems from this unconditional, loving energy. Therefore, if we are all children of God, whose inherent essence is love, then that means He lives in us, and we too are expressions of that divine love.
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:16
To ‘live in love’ is a simple yet profound practice, where every action we take, every word we speak, every thought we think, is rooted in that light. Anytime we choose love, we manifest God’s presence to the world around us. Anytime we choose this, especially in moments where we don’t feel the inclination to, we transform our reality. It shifts our energy from bitterness and resentment toward wholeness and kindness. Loving others connects us more deeply to Him, simply because we experience His indwelling presence through each loving choice.
This consciousness creates a direct connection between our horizontal relationships—family, friends, partners, coworkers, neighbors—and our vertical relationship with God Himself. How can we live in this state? We pause before reacting. We ask ourselves, within each present moment regardless of what we’re experiencing, ‘What would love do?’ And then, we act from that place. We speak from that space. We embody the truth that ‘God is love,’ and when we live in love, we live in God, and God in us.
God’s love is steadfast—unchanging through every circumstance—yet it can be difficult to consistently reflect that love in daily life. To live in love means to live in awareness of His presence, allowing divine compassion to flow through every word, thought, and action. Experiencing God’s love more deeply transforms not only how we view ourselves but how we treat those around us.
When we learn to embody His loving essence, especially in moments when patience and grace are hardest to give, we become living reflections of His character. Each act of kindness, forgiveness, and empathy becomes a channel through which God’s love is revealed in the world. To dwell in love, then, is to dwell in God Himself—finding Him not just in prayer, but in every encounter, every gesture, and every choice to love when it matters most.
