Since I've moved to the city I've made a new best friend.

We do a lot of awesome stuff together:
play basketball on the mini hoop
eat fruit snacks
do puzzles
build intense lego towers
watch windmill videos on youtube
read Dr. Seuss
eat lollipopsicles (a combination of lollipops and popsicles)

My best friend is two years old.

I love him so much.  The other day while we were eating breakfast and having a great conversation about firefighters and the noise that firetrucks make, I was just hit with how much I love him.  I love him so much it physically hurt.  It's almost impossible to describe.  Not the kind of hurt that causes you pain, but the kind that causes you to want the best for someone else, doesn't want the other person to ever be upset, and the mere thought of that person being hurt causes you hurt.

If I have this much love for him, I can't imagine what it would like to be his mother or father.  The love, the hurt must be so much it is unbearable and sweet, sweet joy all at the same time.

Such a love can come from people.  And people are sinful.

If it is possible for that love to come from people, I can't even imagine how much more a God, who is without sin, who is perfect in every way, who is eternally pure loves his children.

How can He bear it?
How much hurt does it cause Him?
How much does He want nothing but the best for us?

I can't even fathom His love. Love that He has. Love that He gives. Love that He is.

Amazing.