In Denise's gaze of affection and recognition, Jenny felt a realization of the deep connection she has with her father and mother. To them, Jenny also matters. But why does Jenny matter to her father and mother? Jenny knew through Denny that a mother simply enjoys her daughter for being alive. The purpose of their relationship is, in fact, the relationship. A father and mother love watching their daughter be herself. Daughters love getting know their fathers and mothers. And so it goes...from son and daughter to father and mother to grandfather and grandmother to great-grandfather and great- grand mother. "But just how far does this love go?" Jenny wondered.
"Where does this simple love between parents and children come from? When a man and woman make love, where does that love come from, a love so blissful it creates another life from the husband and wife? Where does this love come from? It must go farther than great-grandfathers and great-grand mothers, farther than the very first father and the very first mother....it must come from their Creator!"
Jenny saw it.
Jenny knew it.
Jenny understood it.
The look of deep affection and adoration must have first been experienced between Creator and creation, between Creator and creature, between God the Father, Adam the first son, and Eve the first daughter. Jenny realized she wanted to know what everyone wants to know:
What is the meaning of all of our lives?
She now knew the answer.
It is the creature recognizing her Creator as Denny had recognized her mother.
When we see The One who has been warming us, cooling us, and feeding us from the beginning, and when He sees us seeing Him and knowing Him, we experience the reason for our creation: To intimately know our Creator. This is the answer to the desperate question of our existence. By asking the desperate question, we end up seeking and knocking without knowing what we are doing.
When we can no longer live without the answer to the supreme question, we will have an epiphany.
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