I wanted to tell you I LOVE YOU...

so I made for you a land of mystery and beauty, and land you would never
fully understand, and yet would remind you of me. A wilderness for you to
know my adventurous heart, a garden for you to know my tender warmth. I
filled it with creatures for you to care for, just as I would care for you. I made
a woman from your side, that you may know what it is like to have a
companion, to share the great intimacy of love, and bring forth from that love
fruit to care for and raise as your own. In his eyes you would look and see
your own, just as I look in your eyes and see mine.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
not control you, so I let a serpent come into the world i have created for you,
and whisper his lies.
I wanted to tell you I trusted you...
so I let you choose for yourself what you wanted to do. When had done what
you did I wanted to tell you I would remain faithful, so I said I would put
enmity between the serpent and a woman yet to come... a mother who would
bear your Savior.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I poured down rain to renew the land that had become poison through the
serpent's lies and the dark areas of your heart. I gathered the creation I had
made for you into the ark and watched over you on the sea while the
purification took place. And when the flood subsided, I promised to never let
it happen again. EVER. And I placed a rainbow across the sky to remind you
that I am faithful.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I made a people of you in Abraham. I asked of you a sacrifice to remind
you that you were once made for my love. And I promised descendants as
many as the stars in the sky and sand on the shore. My child, do you see this
promise? Do you see how it is still true to this day?
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I rescued you from slavery in Egypt, I led you through the sea and through
the wilderness. I gave you the law written on my heart and wrote it on the
stone I gave you as your home. I asked you to carry it with you until it
became written on your own heart. That our hearts might once again be one.
I wanted to tell you I love you...

so I sent prophets to the ages to perform my miracles, to speak of my great

passion for you, my only children. Do you realize that I never sent prophets to
any other creature? Do you realize that I never cared about any other created
thing that was, or is, or shall be as much as you? So much as to call it my
child. To make you in my image and likeness that we can have unity on the
deepest level.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I gave you what you asked of me. I gave you kings, I gave you power. I
fought wars for you. I did this all that you might realize the folly of your ways
and that all you needed to do was trust in the one who gave it to you from
the beginning.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I wrote you poems in the Psalms, I wrote you songs with the intimacy of a
lost lover. I wrote you books of wisdom and grace and guidance and hope. I
wrote with the hope that someday you would read them and lift more than
just your lips, but your whole being back to me.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I prepared a lineage from the very beginning, that would bear my most
precious gift and being. I wanted you to know that He was truly for each of
you. So within this lineage that would bear perfection itself, I allowed the
most broken hearted and darkest of characters.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so when the time had come, I gave you my Only Son.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I let Him grow up among you, held in your arms, taught in your temples.
He would become your Son, Him through whom the whole world was created.
He would become your neighbor, Him who lived with angels and in the
companionship of the very Holy Trinity. He would become your friend, Him
whose very image of love and companionship you were created for. He would
become your teacher, Him who all teachings were about.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I watched as you learned to hate him, for showing you about Me and the
glory for which you were once made. I held my breath while you lied and
yelled and conspired against Him. I remember the day I breathed life into
your lips as you betrayed Him with a kiss. I witheld my hand when you
reached out and struck the face of my Beloved Son, and I blessed the tree I

created years ago as you cut it down and formed beams together in the
shape of a cross, on which to try and kill the greatest love I had ever shown.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so when finally my only Son died I could not withold my tears as they fell
down as rain upon the earth on that Friday.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I placed His body gently in the arms of his mother, as she softly prayed the
prayer of the only pure heart left alive on earth.
I wanted to tell you I love you...
so I sent that Son sacrified for all down the Hades to release from their prison
those who had fallen asleep. And I raised Him on the last day, so that all the
world might know that THE GREAT POWER OF MY LOVE CANNOT BE KILLED.
My child, keep this story alive in your heart. For it is as true today as it was on
that third day, when it trampled over the grave.
I love you.
And soon you will be with me forever, the great peace of my eternal embrace.
It is worth everything that I could ask of you. It is more than you could
possibly imagine. But if you look deep within your heart, you will find Me. You
will know this story I have told you is TRUE.