Saturday, May 7th

Created in love, tended in solicitous tenderness and watched over as form and personality develop in the likeness of the Father Himself, the children of men are the specially favoured of all creation and each one loved into existence.

How close, then, is each of the Father's beloved children to His heart. That is why those of the Father's children who are closest to Him because they have chosen to follow His leading and respond to His loving kindness are committed to the whole of His creation., and especially to their fellowmen . The same love which loved them into creation courses through the heart and veins of those who are His faithful ones so that they naturally seek out not only those whom they recognise as fellows in faithfulness but also those whom the Father's love has failed to reach because of the selfishness and perversity and blindness of many.

Love is the natural condition of the context of living: hatred and unlove are aliens in the world the Father created. To destroy the ravages of forms of alienation from the Father I lived and died and rose again. Those who identify with Me in the cycle of redemptive love unite themselves with the heart of the Father through Our Holy Spirit and share in the saving of the Father's beloved humanity.