C.S. Lewis

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble as long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word love and look on things as though man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man and man does not exist for his own sake. Rev 4:11"Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created". We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest 'well pleased'. To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must in the nature of things be impeded and repelled, by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable.

Song of Fatherhood

Then I hold the child, soft beating life
And deep within the song begins
Which only ends with passing strife
The instinctive drone of fatherhood
Protect, gather and to provide
The bass contends with halted peace
Reverberates against our meat
Like waves upon the polished night shore
My song laps the weary child's soul.