Miguel Ángel Fuentes – Meditations on God the Father

The following meditations are aimed at building an
adequate understanding of God the Father. They begin
with some meditations on God in general, and then on
the Most Holy Trinity, and finally some points are offered
for meditating upon some truths about God the Father,
Providence, Holy Abandonment, and God’s allowing of
evil and suffering. These are some possible meditations;
many more meditations could be prepared by taking the
Biblical texts that speak of divine paternity. I suggest
that each person adjust the meditations that follow
in the measure that it is helpful for them and for their
own spiritual benefit. These meditations should be
complemented with some meditations on oneself and
on one’s neighbor, since these three concepts (the idea
of God, in particular the idea of God the Father, the idea
of myself, and the idea of my neighbor) are intimately
linked, and the ruin of one of them (as, for instance,
happens in those who have a distorted understanding
of themselves: exaggerated self-contempt, a lack of
meaning in life, an inferiority complex, etc.) necessarily
has repercussions on the understanding of divine
paternity and of the true value of their neighbor.