God created this beautiful world for us (autumn and winter in Colorado)

"In order to induce our will to act with an exact compliance to the Will of God, and promote His glory, let us remember that He has set the example of loving and honoring us a thousand different ways. He drew us out of nothing, created us after His own likeness, and all other things for our use. In redeeming us, He would not employ the brightest angel, but His only Son, Who paid the price of the world, not with silver or gold, which are perishable things, but with His sacred Blood, and that by a death not less ignominious than cruel. He watches continually over us for our security against the fury of our enemies, fights for us by His holy grace, and, in order both to nourish and strengthen us, is ever ready to feed us with the Precious Body of His Son in the Sacrament of the altar. Are not these convincing proofs of the excessive love which God bears for us?"

~ Dom Lawrence Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat.

He has "loved us and honored us in a thousand ways". He "watches over us" and even "fights for us". These are words worth contemplating....

until the day we die and finally meet Him Face to Face. 

Will He find that we have responded to Him with all the love we had?

Or will He find that we took His Love for granted?