What is our relationship with God? He's the Potter, we're the Clay? Yes, but it's not the end of the story. He is the Shepherd; we are the Sheep. He is the Master; we are the Servants. Sheep don't recognize the love of the Shepherd, they only experience; they don't share it. Servants taste the love, and can express it, too, but there is no real intimacy. So we are called the sons and daughters of God. But yet the intimacy that God means for us to have with him is not yet total. Most of us stop at Masters and Servants, some even escalate into the sons and daughters. How many say that we are real-life friends with God? "I've got a friend in Jesus," as the sixties song goes. I could stop here, but that's not the end. Here we reach the epiphany of what our relationship with God is meant to be - we are the Beloved, he is the Lover, and our communion is more intimate and fulfilling than anything ever. That's what it's meant to be.