God’s love for us

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This week I’ve been visiting my son, daughter in law, and grandson who live across the country from us. I had to say goodbye today and as I was hugging my two year old grandson, I broke into tears because I love him so much. It’s so hard to leave him.
It got me thinking about how much God really loves us, which is so much more than we can imagine. How it must hurt Him when we turn from him. Why do people turn away from that love?
 
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It got me thinking about how much God really loves us, which is so much more than we can imagine.
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When Jesus spent his time on Earth, he would have lived by the greatest commandments. But how did Jesus hold out his hands on the cross; and love the man with the hammer and nails; as he loves himself?
That seems a love beyond my understanding. He loves each and everyone of us with that same love because he died for me and for everyone.
 
People are ignorant or uneducated or just don’t want to accept God’s love. It sounds like you have a beautiful family!
 
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This week I broke into tears…It’s so hard to leave him.
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May Mother Church stretch out Her Loving Arms and protect you from these feelings!

I’m sorry you had to leave your family. I’ll pray for everyone involved
 
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Why do people turn away from that love?
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Love invites relationship. God’s love invites relationship, and relationship with Him (in the minds of some) has a downside that is a deal-breaker. The upside is salvation! The downside is the Cross. Many do not want the cross.
 
Sometimes from ignorance, or pain or misplaced anger.

Sometimes they never felt human love, so they can’t imagine God’s love, and try to fill the hole in their heart with pleasure and “stuff”.
(Which is why we have to be so careful to live in charity 🙂❤️)

Sometimes it’s just from cussedness.
 
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I turn away because the pleasures and/or stresses of the moment distract me from my commitment to love.
Takes a lot of practice to habituate the virtues.
 
Many many reasons I expect. Pride being the number one. We think we dont need God, we can do it on our own. Some of that is natural, part of growing up, taking the first steps of adulthood (often I think why it happens to teens and tweens ) but what we forget is we need God, we cannot do a single thing without him, it’s not like being without our parents we can manage without our parents. We want our parents, but we need God. God gives us the same leeway to stray as our parents do, hoping we come back. That’s our free choice. I think that the more we get involved and seduced by the world the harder it is to come back to God, but he never stops calling us and gently guiding us back to him and is always waiting for us with loving arms. As to why we go, the ever seductive call of sin, the world, flesh and the devil. Our weaknesses, we have to accept them as we are both body and soul, we will fall now and again. The more we choose God the more his grace abounds in us and the easier it is for us to remain with him. But the opposite is also true, the more someone chooses sin, the more that habit forms and the more they turn from God. Still God never forgets them and constantly seeks them.
 
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We are human beings. We don’t always do what is in our best self interested.
Fortunately, God is open 24/7.
All we need do is to reach out to him.
God bless you, Convert 3, and all in your family! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
 
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