That gift of divine love is ours to study and cherish and share with others about whom we care. This specific order simply describes how we can naturally come to love God. The Sidur and Torah tell Gods love is there. Ve-ahavta, You will love Adonai your God. We will feel overcome with love for God in part because God loved us first, so completely, that even our worst sins would not compel God to abandon us.
Nothing arouses love more than the awareness of being loved, but that awareness has to be there.
Shema Yisrael . The kind of active listening that Im talking about means tuning in to a frequency of internal awareness that is receptive. Yisrael be-ahavah God loves us utterly and uniquely. Kushner says that a bush burning in the blazing desert would not be something terribly unusual. Surely others had seen such sights before many times and barely taken note of them.