We were bouncing and laughing together on their big, new trampoline, three of my grandsons and I, when just casually, little Gideon, at the age of three and a half years, says, “I LOVE you, Gramma”, and keeps on bouncing away…
Only a short while later, amidst meal conversations – “I LOVE you, Mommy”, states Gideon, and the eating simply continues.
After dinner, Gideon shows me one of his super cool educational games, and between excited three year old explanations of game rules, he spouts out, “I LOVE you, Gramma”, then continues on with his babble. (As an aside, I have to say that this very word came to mind, and in looking it up to verify my menopausal brain wasn’t playing tricks on me, I found this meaning: talk rapidly and continuously in an excited or incomprehensible way. Yep! This definitely describes Gideon at that moment in time!)
While enjoying ‘sweet’ fellowship, aka dessert, at the patio table outside, I hear Gideon interject, “I LOVE you, Grampa” and then see him shovel another spoon of ice cream into his little mouth.
This little guy knows what it is to love with abandon! In all his three and a half years of innocence, he is unwittingly loving like God…
With abandon = a far-reaching, unrestricted effort
Just imagine! When God created the heavens, the earth, separated the water into sky and sea, created plants and birds and fish and animals of all different kinds — He was thinking of YOU and saying, “I love you!”
When God created humankind, He was thinking of the relationship He would have WITH YOU, and saying, “I love you!”
When God sent His perfect and only Son here to suffer and die because of sin, BECAUSE OF YOU, He said, “I love you!”
Yes,
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