There’s nothing more obvious than that God must have loved us first; God has created us out of his love for us. Nothing is more obvious, but it’s the obvious that we always forget. What we learn in meditation is to remember that; to remember that God loved us first, and by opening ourselves to that truth, by accepting that truth, we experience the love of God flooding our inmost heart through the Holy Spirit he has given us. We experience ourselves loved; we accept ourselves as loved; we allow ourselves to be loved. That is what we are doing in meditation. And it is as a direct result of that, that we are empowered to love ourselves, and love others, and love God.
(Aspects of Love 3 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
