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13 DENVER CATHOLIC | FEBRUARY 2021 of the Lord that could not be contained. We can't reflect on the Gospel without first contemplating this mystery of God's love com- pelling him to create. To fully mediate upon the mystery of God living and dying and resurrecting for us, a project we should all undertake, we have to first think on the creative power of the one who lived, died, and rose from the dead. If we want to orient our lives to be centered entirely around his love and plan for our salvation, we have to first recall that we are saved in this cre- ated world, spoken into being, where that same Word spoken came to dwell among us. As we drive to school and look at the sunrise each morning, I marvel at the gorgeous hues of pink and orange, the occasional purple or red splashing against the clouds. And I am enam- ored with the little girls sitting in the backseat, thinking thoughts and making noise, their lives a snapshot of God's goodness and creative power. I delight in the 80's music pumping through the stereo that makes us all dance in our seats. I breathe a sigh of thanks as the hot coffee wakes me up. I rejoice in the gift of the classmates my daughter will spend her day with, and I rest in the reality that all of it – every little thing surrounding me, from the bright beaming sun to the tiny baby sitting behind me, exists because God wants it to exist. He created it all – he spoke it all into being – purely out of love for you and for me, making a perfect gift of himself. Count it all as grace that we are here, and it is good that we are, because it is what God wants most of all. And because of his desire for us, we cannot help but love him back.