Reflecting God’s Love to His Children – April 14, 2002
One way we can express our love for God is by treating our fellow men with kindness and love. When we love others as our Heavenly Father loves them, we begin to realize our real potential.
Think on the divine origin of every human soul. Wordsworth wrote: “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, the Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar. . . . trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.”1
Every person we encounter is a child of God, and the Father of us all will inspire and help us as we seek to love and serve them. Each day will bring new opportunities to love and lift and forgive friends, family members, even strangers.
In Hawthorne’s classic story, “The Great Stone Face,” a young boy from a remote valley grows to become the great man who legend foretold would one day visit the place. He achieves this greatness simply by striving to embody the noble characteristics of this legendary man.
Likewise, as children of God we become more like Him by treating others the way He would: offering forgiveness, patience, and unconditional love.
Of all God’s creations, man is the only one created in His image and endowed with the potential to become like Him. God’s love blesses us and others as we strive to treat one another as His divine children.
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1. See The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, “Ode to Immortality” (London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1924) 357-59.