The Fathers love...

Have you ever thought about what it might mean to be a person who radiates God’s love? Jesus radiated that love and in doing so opened himself to criticism; about his friendships, his cleanliness and his eating habits! He received the clean and the unclean alike, touching both (often to the horror of the former)...
How weak as I am can I pattern my life after his?
First I must accept Gods’ loving embrace:
"The Father interrupted the sons strategy for return....The interruption ... performed a transformation. After failure in the distant country the son reconstructed his identity as a "son not worthy to be called a son". By the sheer joy of his fathers embrace, without a word his identity starts to be changed again. The son made his confession but right at the point where his strategy dictate that he inform his father about the new identity he has constructed for himself.... the father interrupts him again. The confession made to the father who embraced him has taken his identity in relation to the father out of his hands and placed it into the hands of the father. With a command to the slaves, the father reconstructed the prodigal’s identity. He ordered a robe the best one- pit on him, a ring placed on his finger, as the prodigal was transformed before our eyes he called him son of mine. First he symbolically remade the "son who is not worthy to be called a son" into the "son he could be proud" of, then he named him "son of mine". The secret, the father would not let his son, his lost and dead son out of his hearts embrace."- Volf -Exclusion and Embrace
God does not let us out of His embrace, He waits for us patiently, arms and heart ready to receive... despite our frailty, our weakness and our brokenness we are received, we need no masks, we have no need to construct a new identity for ourselves (it will be rejected anyway).
Once we have received the embrace of God, truly received it we will be changed, and we will find ourselves able to love and accept others...
The problem is we leave home often, sometimes without realising it, we wander away and when we meet others in need of embrace we reject them because they are other... at that moment what is sorely needed is for us to r return home, to receive again the embrace of the Father, the kiss of the Mother.
As children grow, they come to believe that they no longer need touch, no longer need to be embraced.... they are wrong, just as we are when we leave home and stray away from the loving arms of God Only then are we able to radiate God’s love...