At the same time, we truly belong to ourselves because He gives us to ourselves. This is the gratuitous wonder at the heart of life. I am who I am because I am His creature.
Everything that is “me” is the effect, here and now, of his direct and personal creative and sustaining love.
This is what matters, even without professional honors, or a job, or even the ability to do much of anything. His love is everything. Outside of that love there is “nothing.”
Our hope is to live entirely in Him and for Him. And it's a real hope, because He has made it possible. He has made a way for us.
