Article September 21, 1998 Issue

You can feel God's love

Open your heart to Him.

By Fay Kallos Fahs

One morning when my oldest child was still a toddler, he climbed out of his crib and came into our bedroom. I noticed that he was walking in a halting, awkward fashion. When he tried to climb up onto the bed, he was unable to do so without help, though he had previously been able to scramble up at a rapid rate. He started to speak, but the words came out in a garbled fashion, completely unlike his normal, clear speech.

I quickly turned my thought in prayer to God, good. Immediately I became filled with the most beautiful sense of love I had ever known. I felt absolutely radiant and aglow with it. It seemed to me that this was love at its most pure: calm love, trusting love, joyous love, embracing this dear child in the most caring way. Then the thought came that if I, as a mere human mother, could feel such love, how rich, how deep must be the love of God, who is divine Love itself. How all-encompassing must be the tender, loving care of our spiritual Father-Mother God for all His children. At that moment I knew with certainty that the wonderful protective love of God was right there embracing my son and me in all its power and glory and goodness.

I scooped the child up, put him on his changing table, dressed him, and confidently placed him on the floor. He marched into the kitchen with his normal step and asked for breakfast with his usual speech. The problems of motor control and the speech disability had completely dissipated while I was dressing him, and they never reappeared. But that wonderful sense of love became a gift I still treasure.

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