God's Own Child

I dreamed of an aunt, an uncle, a mentor, who said,
"I couldn't love you more if you had been my own child."

And I thought, God loves me, loves me infinitely.
What if God were to say to me,
"I couldn't love you more if you had been my own Son"?
Could I stand the responsibility
      of a love so great it would give up
            God's greatest gift, life itself?
Eek!

And I thought, but Christ,
      the Second Persona of the Godhead,
is the one Christians celebrate as
      true God AND true human being,
            the perfect marriage of God and humanity.

Christians focus so much on
      the divine presence
            in the human Jesus of Nazareth
that maybe we tend to downplay
      the human presence
            in the divine and illimitable Godhead.

Maybe God COULDN'T love me more
      if I had been God's own Child.
Maybe I AM God's own Child.

Maybe I have to live up to that.

Eek!