Ezekiel 47:8-9 — Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed.  And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes.
From time to time, Myra will ask me, “Do you know how much I love you?” The answer, of course, is that I can only imagine. I know it is a huge wonderful flood of love; it is greater than anyone but we and God can guess at. My love for her is the same – sometimes I cannot keep it in. 

Our love is very great … and yet it is two drops in the mightiest ocean that there has ever been. This is so hard to understand, but it is true. The infinite ocean of the love of God imagines everything, creates everything, supports and sustains everything. Julian of Norwich comes close to capturing this infinite truth:

And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God. (The Revelation of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich) 

God’s love is one of those attributes of God that cannot be separated from all the others – it is His sovereign choice, it is infinite in time and scope, it is unchangeable and uninfluenced by anything I can do, it is the gift of grace, it is righteous. 

When I contemplate God’s love I am humbled by the knowledge that my little love, my drop in that mighty ocean, possesses all those same attributes. Don’t ask me how. Especially don’t ask me how my love can have an infinite scope. Yet it must. It is part of God’s love.