God’s astounding love, and our capacity to perceive it

[Gabrielle Dean]

"We can be loved and lost at the same time.  We can be deeply loved, and deeply lost at the same time. …. I wish it weren’t true.  I wish there were no gaps between God’s astounding love, and our capacity to perceive it, lean into it, and trust it.  I wish the pieces of the cosmic equation — God’s love, our freedom, God’s otherness, our brokenness, God’s timing, our impatience — were different enough to yield a cleaner, easier, more straightforward result.  But no.  We can be loved and lost at the same time."

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