A Father's Heart

Being or becoming a father has taught me more about God's character, plans and desire for us than I've learnt in quite a while. For example, I know that there will come one day when Caleb will become rebellious in certain ways, could be the colour of his hair, the girl he brings home, the car he wants to buy... yet in all these, I still greatly desire to have him born into this world, so that I can bond with him, so that I can share my life with him, so that I can fellowship, commune, love and be loved by him.
God knew that Adam and Eve would sin, he knows all things, he exists outside of time, yet He still chose to make them/us the way they/we are... now I can almost understand why. He wanted to give us the freedom to love Him back, otherwise he would have made robots (like the Bebop dog that is programmed to wag its tail each time you call, whether or not it likes to do it... in fact, it does not have a choice of response). But He gave us the choice to love or not to love, which makes love complete and perfect if we reciprocate, it is real love (the real stuff).
Caleb has a choice to either love us back or to ignore us, and if he does reciprocate, it will surely make the relationship all that much sweeter, joyous and fulfilling.