How He loves us

I was trying to think of how to explain our relationship with God to a young friend, and this image came to me. Imagine you are high up in the sky, floating above trees and buildings, clouds nearby. You are face down and scared to death you will fall, but someone is holding you from behind, someone you can't quite see. It's hard to believe they are there, but they are, obviously, or you would fall. That doesn't do much to quell your fear though.

Life is like that. All we can see is what's in front of us, what's making us afraid. God is there holding onto us, will never let go and, someday, will fly us beyond this. We'll remember all of it and will be able to smile about it infinitely more easily than we can now. Even though this life may scare us, even though it's all we can see right now, it doesn't change the reality that God is behind us the whole time and in charge of the flight. And He will never let us go. That's an important thing to remember, because if He was just there, but could let go, his love would not be perfect. He can't let go because it's not in his nature to stop loving us.

So how can we learn to live better, knowing that what we see on this world is not all we have, not all we are? As someone else wrote, how can we learn to live as LOVED.