Who But He?

This same God that created the heavens and the earth, with all of its cold logic, iron-clad rules of nature, birth and death, space as vast and unfriendly to life as anything we have encountered here- has shown himself capable not just of unbreakable Law, but of Love. He who is to be feared among all things (as He has the power of eternity, and only a fool would approach Him with head up and proud and unafraid), He who has need of nothing, has somehow made Himself in need of us. The remarkable thing, the wondrously amazing thing that always makes me stop to catch my breath, is that once- at a dinner long ago- He chanced to call us "friend".