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During our darkest hours, we can often think that God doesn't love us or that he has somehow abandoned us in our misery.
It is precisely at those times when we need to be reminded of God's constant love of us and how he always thinks of us.
We are in his arms right now
St. John Eudes, a 17th-century priest known for promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart, reflects on this reality in a reflection that he wrote that is included in a book entitled, Meditations of various subjects.
He focuses in particular on how God is thinking of us at this very moment and every moment of our lives:
From the moment of my creation until now, He has borne me in His arms, in His bosom and in His Heart, with more care and love than a mother carries her child, and not a single moment has passed without His thinking of me, loving and preserving me.
The reality is that if God somehow "forgot" us, we would cease to exist, as St. John Eudes explains:
[I]f God were to withdraw His Almighty Hand which sustains me, and were to cease for a single moment to preserve me, I would at that very instant return to the nothingness from which He drew me. Therefore, He gives me at each successive moment the identical being He conferred at the first instant of my life and with the selfsame power and goodness with which He gave it to me then.
The fact that God is continually sustaining us and loving us into existence should prompt us to give thanks to him and to dedicate our lives to him:
I belong to Him, therefore, by as many ties as there have been moments in my life and I am deeply indebted to Him for each succeeding moment as for the first.
God can appear to be absent from our lives at times, but it is at those moments when God is the closest to us. We may not be able to physically see or sense his presence, but he is there.
Our existence is proof that God loves us and sees great value in our lives.
Be at peace knowing that God is with you at this very moment, thinking about you and beholding you. It's up to us to think of God and to let him gaze at us with the love of a father.
