C.S. Lewis writes: “God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe…seeing the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross…Herein is love. This is a diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves.”[1]
Heel bone and iron nail, Roman crucifixion, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1st cent CE
The content of this post is from All Creation Sings by Luann Budd.
[1] C.S. Lewis, Four Loves, 509.