Me- I love you, Gigi
Zeke – No, I love Gigi
Me – I love Gigi too!
Zeke – No, Gigi is little like me! I love Gigi!
This goes back and forth for a few minutes with the battle
over who can love Gigi getting more and more intense. But I learned something
very deep and meaningful from my exchange with my three year old today.
It is easier to love someone like us. Now I could go on to talk about race issues or kinship but I won't. What I will talk about is how someone so big can love someone so little. Sometimes it is hard to
believe someone so much bigger than us can love us. It is crazy for us to
believe that God loves us. He is the creator of the universe, when would he
have time for little old me. He has better things to be dealing with than my
day to day trivial issues. I mean it is kind of like asking the President to
help me out with a parking ticket. But God wants to be Lord of our whole life,
even the little meaningless things. He loves us more than we can comprehend.
But still we hesitate. I believe Jesus helps us to make this bridge of love
between small us and big God. Jesus became little like us. He became one of us,
so he could tell us, or better yet, show us how much he really does love
us. He became little to show us how big
he really is.
This is the reason why the Church
encourages us to ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede for us. Why we go to
the great saints or maybe the not so great ones. They are more like us. They
suffered like us. They sinned and learn to overcome temptations and sins like
we hope to do. They show us that someone little can make a big
difference.