Letters and Stories

The more I realize our Creator’s closeness to His children, my appreciation for life and its’ beauties expands.  The feeling is comparable to reading a well-thought-out card or letter from a close friend.  As you skim over each memory, hidden joke and emotional reflection, your heart connects to the writer! The letter is remarkable because it is personal and inescapably heartwarming because each word was inscribed with an obvious love-intent.  I have now come to see the world in a very similar way.

Reading John’s reference to God as “love”, I cannot help but look for the romance between humanity and the Divine.  If the creator of the world is, in fact, the very essence of love, there ought to be evidence of this in EVERYTHING.  Even at the very start of it all, this characteristic should be woven through the very purpose of humanity and its' life.  (So let's take a look 'in the beginning'.)  As one reads the first chapter of Genesis, whether it be historical account or poetic cosmology, the final detail to the world’s formation is mankind.  Is it too much to conclude then, that to a great extent, this world was created for us? That would certainly be romantic. 

Have you ever considered that the earth is a platform for which God schemed the ultimate love-story, and Jesus is the protagonist that drew your heart back to your Father? This way of thinking has changed everything for me.  I cannot see a beach or mountain without feeling completely romanced by its’ maker.  I cannot see an individual without considering how infatuated God is with them.  We are children of a God that is masterful in every detail of His romance, because love not only considers the big picture, but shows its true care in the intricacies of the ‘little things’. 

The Bible is the first few chapters of this indefinite love-story; the same one, to which, you have now stepped into the pages and dialogue.  Heaven and its’ angels expectantly watch as you take on life with your loving creator.  They cannot help but wonder what adventures the two of you will take on together.