Sometimes it can be hard to see ourselves as God sees us. It can be impossible to imagine God’s loving gaze. Maybe you don’t recall ever being looked at lovingly. Perhaps you experience every gaze as critical, judgmental, disapproving, or, at best, indifferent. But that is not how God looks at us. God’s gaze is like the gaze between lovers wrapped in a tender embrace. God looks at us the way a mother looks lovingly at her newborn baby.
