Our Father creates us and loves us from the moment of our conception. We are born into a world of choices. He provides us with everything we need to succeed, but he also gives us free will. He watches, loving us with Father-love, as we live our own lives.
Does his heart leap with joy like mine does when my daughter wraps her arms around me and says, "I love you, Mama,"?
Does his pulse race; does he break into sweat when He watches me fall, knowing how much I might be hurt?
Is it as hard for him as it is for me to watch his child willfully disobey the rules meant to keep her safe?
Does his heart break when I cry?
Is holding me one of the greatest feelings he has ever experienced?
I think God allows us to be parents so we can know, from first hand experience, what it means to deeply love and nurture a free-will person the way he does each of us. Our pain and joy as parents directly reflect the heart of our Father. What a beautiful, difficult, overwhelming gift it is to be a parent!
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