Resting in Divine Filiation

“Rest in divine filiation. God is a Father – your Father! – full of warmth and infinite love. Call him Father frequently and tell him, when you are alone, that you love him, that you love him very much, and that you feel proud and strong because you are his son.” // The Forge, no. 331 

So often we can struggle to accept and trust in the Fatherhood of God due to developmental trauma growing up. This in turn affects our images of God as Father. But as St Josemaria here teaches we need to ”rest” in being a Child of God, in the safe knowledge we are loved and cared for. 

This is the intimacy that Jesus taught us through praying the “Our Father” and giving us the Holy Spirit who gives us the power to be the children of God through our baptism & union with Christ 

“But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.”

‭‭John‬ ‭1:12-13‬ ‭NRSV-CI‬‬