the love of God is like a giant oak tree whose roots go deep into the ground and is sturdy and dependable… whose branches grow wide and provide shelter to birds who travel through… it does not care what we look like, smell like, sound like, act like, it is there…. it provides places of nesting for the young, shade from the summer’s heat… comfort, provision and protection… this is something of what the love of God is like… faithful, unconditional