A Thought to Rekindle the Awe

I am eternal not only because I will live forever, but also because I existed in eternity past. I existed, as did all humans (as did all created things) in the mind and plan of God. He knew me and chose me before the foundation of the world. We, Creation, are a part of God, and have always been. We were never foreign to Him. He never suddenly thought us up the way we might suddenly think of something that before had not existed in our imaginations. In that sense, we have always been a part of the Infinite.