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, Godde loves me, loves me infinitely.
What if Godde 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
            Godde's greatest gift, life itself?
Eek!

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

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

Maybe I have to live up to that.

Eek!