God’s contagious love is a love that waits for us even when we are still far off. A love that calls us child in spite of our fleeing. A love never gives up on us, never forsakes us, never leaves us. A love that never lets go. Yet a love that will never coerce. A love that patiently, graciously calls out to us, waiting for us to respond. But a love that, upon the first inkling of a response, will ensnare us, enwrap us, and never let us go.