We are each the Father's YES - YES to His very idea of us, YES to His love for us, YES to our existence here and now - and His gift to the Son.
And the Crucifixion is Christ's YES to the Father's will, which made us each His gift back to the Father. Bought at a great price, we are not our own.
Alive in the Holy Spirit (this living love between the Father and the Son), we are a new creation, awakened to the fuller reality vibrating just beyond sense - we hear the Voice of the Shepherd, see the Way that seemed hopelessly hidden, feel this new Life pulsing within us.

And if God said YES to us, how can we ever say NO?