Do you find yourself picking through circumstances like children plucking daisy petals attempting to figure out whether or not God loves you?  If you find yourself least certain of his love in those critical moments when you most need to trust him, there is hope for you.  Where?  At the one event in human history that forever secured your place in the Father’s heart—the cross where Jesus allowed sin and shame to be consumed in his own body so that you could freely embrace a relationship with his Father.  There you will discover that what he always wanted was not the fearful subservience of slaves, but the loving affection of sons and daughters.