Each person is inherently filled with love. When a baby is born her parents pour out love and kindness. They love her for her very existence, and only see good within her. As she grows they educate her with the need to respect and heed them, but the love underlies that. A child who is taken away from the arms of those who love her, and is lacking the deep rooted love is too confused to truly inoculate either love or awe as she is missing the very foundations. She is like a starving person with whom you can't reason as long as she has not yet sated her basic needs.
So, too, Hashem created the world as an act of love. He actualized Creation as He recognized the wondrous good that would emanate from it. Every morning our awakening is another act of loving devotion from Hashem. We can recognize and acknowledge this as we say, "For you have returned to me my soul with kindness." Now we can enter into the realm of awe, after we feel the deep love.
Only after experiencing this deep seated Divine love can we blend it with awe. Just as a parent, in order to be successful, must first show his child love, before he can teach her awe. But a relationship predicated on awe and fear without the underlying foundation of love is bound to have disastrous results.
So, too, Hashem created the world as an act of love. He actualized Creation as He recognized the wondrous good that would emanate from it. Every morning our awakening is another act of loving devotion from Hashem. We can recognize and acknowledge this as we say, "For you have returned to me my soul with kindness." Now we can enter into the realm of awe, after we feel the deep love.
Only after experiencing this deep seated Divine love can we blend it with awe. Just as a parent, in order to be successful, must first show his child love, before he can teach her awe. But a relationship predicated on awe and fear without the underlying foundation of love is bound to have disastrous results.
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