There was a passage read to me today by a friend out of the "Divine Intimacy", in it the writer marveled at the loving mercy of our God, and why was He merciful given our human wretchedness and unfaithfulness, but God is loving mercy.  (Guess I really should get up and actually re-read the passage. But sometimes it is better to let something roam around the mind in its spoken form and not its written form imo)

God who is all powerful, the Creator of everything is love, is mercy on a level we cannot even fathom. In the Old testament God flooded the world in anger over man's lack of reverence to Him.  The one and only time we ever saw Jesus get visibly angry was when the merchants were in His Father's House, so Jesus went through tossing stalls and chastising them.  I wonder, this is totally me thinking out loud here, being not in time when did God's mercy came about?  When He saw his son Jesus willing to come down to earth and live as one of us?... when the Father saw, endured and felt the suffering of his only son as Jesus lived his Passion?  Is it ever proper to think of a "when", "where"?  Did God like all Father's go through a bit of a learning curve to see what might get our attention?  Was it when He knew it was time to offer us a chance at real hope of entering into a Divine union with Him? Or is that just how we feeble humans saw it being to ignorant and blind to see?

  That love of God's so vast.. so merciful.  Somewhere in this blog, can't seem to find it right now, there was a great quote were it was said that God has no mercy for the Angels because they knew not miseries like we humans do... Since we suffer miseries He is full of compassion and forgiveness for us little creatures.  Hunh.. how incredible is that?  We suffer due the failings of the first humans and are stained with original sin and all humans fail, fall, and are weak... but our Father knows this, appreciates how despite the hardships we face, the temptations, the weakness of our flesh and will He roots for us to make it to Him.  He gives us the grace and gifts to climb ever closer to Him through His beloved son Jesus.  He gave us his Son!  He had his Son suffer the ultimate price by taking on our sins and suffering the price for our sins.

I think I am too tired now to adequately rehash the meditation I had on this earlier tonight in this post. Maybe later- hit the "save to drafts" button Lnda