National Sons day 2023

​God loves me.
This I know.
But not because the bible tells me so.
These two do.
Elliott and Ian.
In all of his power and authority and sovereignty and creativity,
God could have chosen any way to write us into his story.
He chose to write us in as children. His children.
He our father, we his children.
He didn't want to be our king or czar or ruler or dictator.
He wanted to be our father; he wanted us to be his children.
I never wanted children.
But isn't it like God to write stories we don't want but ultimately can't live without?
Isn't it like God to write a story that says, you will know the kind of love I have for you through the kind of love you have for them.
Elliott and Ian.
They are the once upon a time in the truest love story I have ever known.
Unconditional. Non-judgmental. Kind.
Would I have ever really known love at all without them?
Isn't it like God to ensure I never have to know the answer to that?
God loves me.
This I know.
But not because the bible tells me so.
These two do.
Elliott and Ian.