How to Receive Love After You’ve Fallen Short: Learning to live from belovedness, not performance

 What do you do when you know you’ve fallen short—when failure, shame, or disappointment feels like the final word? In this episode of Peachtree's Cultivate podcast, René Schlaepfer joins Dr. Richard Kannwischer to explore how love is formed not through performance or spiritual success, but through grace received in our places of weakness.

Reflecting on Peter’s denial of Jesus and his tender restoration on the shoreline, this conversation invites us to see how deeply love and belovedness are intertwined. Jesus does not meet Peter with correction or condemnation, but with presence, questions of love, and a recommissioning rooted in grace.

This episode speaks to anyone who has struggled with shame, felt disqualified, or tried to earn God’s approval. It offers a hopeful vision of a life shaped by belovedness rather than performance, and a reminder that loved people are the ones who learn to love others well.