The key to living successfully is to experience God’s love in every moment. But how do we do this? How do we realize and experience this love, emotionally and psychologically, especially in times of difficulty and stress? Does the love of God feel like the ordinary kind of love we feel for the people and the things we cherish? Does it feel the same as the love our parents or other people express toward us? And if our experience of love from childhood or from faulty relationships is damaged and painful how can we know what the pure, true, nurturing and forgiving care of God would mean to us if we could recognize it? It may be exemplified by some or all of these, but we must each build the sense of this love, the true experience of being loved, for our individual selves. The answers may come from sacred writings, from prayer and meditation, and from the simple experience of witnessing the unfoldment of nature, of the “force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”
Nick Hilton - Reflections 