How do I love thee

Hebrews 1:1-12

            Do you recall your first love? Your first kiss? Your first intimate moment with someone? I would say that that moment, that person is cherished in our hearts forever. It opens up a whole new world of excitement, of living. A new dimension of love. It becomes a possibility for you and for more than you, also for an "us". It is natural and beautiful as any flower or any rainbow. We were not meant to be alone.

          This reading goes to great lengths to express how God feels about his son Jesus, albeit written by a human and from a human perspective. The power of the love of creation is not far removed from our first love. Perhaps more akin to when our own first child is born but the power of love, it's transformity, potential and life are all there.

          God wishes us to have the same feelings as he does, we are after all made in his likeness and image. The feelings of our own firsts of love, is how God feels about us. Our creation is a masterpeice of His. We each are as unique and as grand as an Rembrandt, any Picasso, any Rodan. 

          As God speaks of His son, he speaks about us all. We should not just realize it, we should own it, revel in it, know it to our core in every fiber of our being.

           

           

Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say,
‘You are my Son;
   today I have begotten you’?
Or again,
‘I will be his Father,
   and he will be my Son’?
And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,
‘Let all God’s angels worship him.’
Of the angels he says,
‘He makes his angels winds,
   and his servants flames of fire.’
But of the Son he says,
‘Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever,
   and the righteous sceptre is the sceptre of your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
   with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.’
And,
‘In the beginning, Lord, you founded the earth,
   and the heavens are the work of your hands;
they will perish, but you remain;
   they will all wear out like clothing;
like a cloak you will roll them up,
   and like clothing they will be changed.
But you are the same,
   and your years will never end.’