'I praise you, for I am wondrously made,' sings the psalmist. I would echo his words in gratitude for the immense and utterly gratuitous love that God has poured forth upon me from my earliest days. Indeed he has been my loving Father from the time when he 'formed my inward parts' and 'knitted me together in my mother's womb.'
Yet what fills me with even greater joy than this, or rather causes this joy to overflow, is that he loves each one of us, every person he has created, with this same inconceivable love. He yearns to fill our hearts with the eternal gladness which is always his, and...more
