The Creating God speaks His Word

When God creates us, Je speaks His Word of love into a handful of the stardust that is this

earth. His Word speaks in our hearts and we exist. God’s Word speaks in us the divine hope

that we will love our Creator as much as our Creator loves us to begin with.

And when He speaks His Word, it writes on our hearts and minds His law of love—that is,

how God designs us to do, if we will choose it, what will make us entirely happy and the person

He has hoped in eternity that we will be. As David said in one of his psalms: I delight to do your

will, O my God; your law is within my heart (Ps. 40:8).

But we have to choose. We are the most privileged creature in the cosmos. For only we have

the choice to do good or not, to love Him in return or to love ourselves only. All other creatures

in the cosmos (as far as we know!) do what they are designed to do; they have no choice.

Every day of our lives, we choose to love God, becoming one who will return God’s love

forever. This is God’s glory.

Fr. Joe Tetlow, S.J.