Our Experience of Abba

Jesus teaches that when we pray, we are to pray to Abba - to the God who is leaning over us like the most tender of parents. According to Jesus' teaching, God's relationship to us is characterized by immense and continuous concern, care and tenderness, and by an all-inclusive forgiveness that extends to everything in our lives, from the moment of our conception until our death. (Taken from Manifesting God by Thomas Keating.)