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“From the beginning, God has taken us off guard. Who would have imagined a God who truly wanted fellowship with His creation? Not blind or automatic obedience. Not predictable adulation. But the freely chosen response of love and trust. Who would have imagined a God who took the risk of creating beings with the power to rebel against him, to twist the beauty of His creation beyond recognition, to wound and destroy each other? Who would have imagined a God who kept reaching out to these creatures, hunting them down, showing up when they least expected it — in burning bushes, in dreams, in prisons in foreign lands, in lions’ dens, in palaces in faraway lands — never on their terms but always with the same invitation to choose freely to come home?”
~Shirley Mullen

I, John, saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. God will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always be with them as their God.”
~Revelation 21:2-3