Kourtney Brownlow
Nov 12, 2026
Newsletter November 12, 2026
“Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you… God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” - Psalm 73:25-26
My husband came in to kiss me goodbye the other day, and my 7-year-old was in the room. She was immediately grossed out. It’s so funny how that begins to happen. So Daniel said to her, “Sorry about that, your mom is the love of my life.”
Her response: “Turns out God’s the love of your life, man.”
Naturally, we died laughing, and I’ve told that story a hundred times since. But also, I love that her brain immediately went to that. She knows, at the core of everything, God is the one. The only. The main thing.
What does it mean for God to be the love of our life?
I’ve been sitting with that question since she said it, half joking, half completely serious, the way kids say the truest things without even trying. Because if I’m honest, I don’t always live like He is. I live like my husband is some days. I live like my kids are. I live like my to-do list is, if I’m being really honest, because whatever gets the most of my attention is functionally what I’ve made the love of my life, whether I’d say that out loud or not.
The psalmist asked it a different way. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. That’s not a verse about having zero other loves. I love my husband. I love my kids something fierce. I love my people. But it’s a verse about priority, about what sits at the center that everything else orbits around.
Loving God as the love of your life doesn’t mean loving everyone else less. If anything, it means loving them better, because you’re not asking them to be something they were never built to be. My husband can’t be my portion forever. He’s a wonderful man, but he’s a man. He gets tired; he gets it wrong sometimes; he is not actually capable of being the thing my soul needed all along. Only God was built for that job.
I think that’s why my daughter’s comment made me laugh so hard and also kind of wrecked me a little. Because out of the mouths of babes, she said something most of us spend our whole lives circling back around to. We chase after people and things and achievements hoping one of them will finally feel like enough, and none of them ever quite do, because none of them were made to be our portion. Only He was.
So here’s my question for you this week, same one my daughter accidentally handed me. If someone walked in on your life right now, what would you’ve made the love of your life look like? And would Jesus still be standing there, the way my husband was, a little embarrassed but completely right?
Turns out God is the love of our life, man. Out of the mouths of babes.
Kourtney Brownlow
Director of Ministry Growth & Spiritual Engagement
Kourtney Brownlow
Nov 12, 2026
Newsletter November 12, 2026
“Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you… God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” - Psalm 73:25-26
My husband came in to kiss me goodbye the other day, and my 7-year-old was in the room. She was immediately grossed out. It’s so funny how that begins to happen. So Daniel said to her, “Sorry about that, your mom is the love of my life.”
Her response: “Turns out God’s the love of your life, man.”
Naturally, we died laughing, and I’ve told that story a hundred times since. But also, I love that her brain immediately went to that. She knows, at the core of everything, God is the one. The only. The main thing.
What does it mean for God to be the love of our life?
I’ve been sitting with that question since she said it, half joking, half completely serious, the way kids say the truest things without even trying. Because if I’m honest, I don’t always live like He is. I live like my husband is some days. I live like my kids are. I live like my to-do list is, if I’m being really honest, because whatever gets the most of my attention is functionally what I’ve made the love of my life, whether I’d say that out loud or not.
The psalmist asked it a different way. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. That’s not a verse about having zero other loves. I love my husband. I love my kids something fierce. I love my people. But it’s a verse about priority, about what sits at the center that everything else orbits around.
Loving God as the love of your life doesn’t mean loving everyone else less. If anything, it means loving them better, because you’re not asking them to be something they were never built to be. My husband can’t be my portion forever. He’s a wonderful man, but he’s a man. He gets tired; he gets it wrong sometimes; he is not actually capable of being the thing my soul needed all along. Only God was built for that job.
I think that’s why my daughter’s comment made me laugh so hard and also kind of wrecked me a little. Because out of the mouths of babes, she said something most of us spend our whole lives circling back around to. We chase after people and things and achievements hoping one of them will finally feel like enough, and none of them ever quite do, because none of them were made to be our portion. Only He was.
So here’s my question for you this week, same one my daughter accidentally handed me. If someone walked in on your life right now, what would you’ve made the love of your life look like? And would Jesus still be standing there, the way my husband was, a little embarrassed but completely right?
Turns out God is the love of our life, man. Out of the mouths of babes.
Kourtney Brownlow
Director of Ministry Growth & Spiritual Engagement