Intimacy

Predicted freeze didn't happen last night.  Wind kept up all night and today.  White caps on the lake.  Spring wins this round.
I've been meditating on John 10:14-18.  Jesus says, "I am the good shepherd.  I know my sheep and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father."  The unique knowledge and love between the Father and Son is reflected in our relationship with Jesus.
It is a great comfort to me that Jesus knows me intimately, knows everything I am and everything about me, and still loves me.  That makes it very clear that I don't earn his love.  His love for me is not a response.  Jesus loves me, not because of who I am, but because of who he is.  His heart if full and overflowing with love always.
His unearned love, sometimes working through me, brings us all together in one flock.