Peeing in the tub

So I'm talking with my son Aden last night while he's taking a bath, and we're talking about love. We ask him all the time, "How come I love you so much?" Usually he responds, "Because you love me so much," but recently he's added such answers as, "Because I love you." But last night in our conversation he says, "You love me when I pee in the tub." Let me clarify a couple of things. First, he wasn't saying that I love it when he pees in the tub-- we've made it quite clear that it's quite a disgusting practice one should avoid, one I'm sure many adults even still haven't grasped. He knows it's not something we approve of. Now, if I asked him what love was, he would probably say, "I don't know"-- but he knows that it is positive, that it's warm and rewarding and has something to do with acceptance and approval. But his statement "You love me when I pee in the tub" shows that he has grasped in some sense the unconditional aspect of the love from a parent to a child. And he is definitely not regularly in the habit of relieving himself in the tepid waters of the clawfoot; in fact, last night in the middle of his bath he insisted he be taken out, suds and all, so that he could use the toilet, which in his technical terms is known as "the potty." So in his head he knows he should use the toilet rather than the bathtub as it is one of the rules of what is right in this house (and yours too, I hope). But he has also grasped the fact that sometimes, if he has an accident, that his daddy still loves him.
Now we can never fully understand the love of God-- it is deeper and wider that our minds can comprehend, further than the east is from the west-- but could we put into words what the love of God really entails? And we cannot fully grasp the full import of Christ's death on the cross, that because we have gone against the rules of what is right, God, in His desire to save us, His desire to connect with us, to have relationship with us-- to LOVE us-- He paid the price for that sin which would otherwise separate us from that Love. Maybe, in one aspect, that's what it is to come to God with faith like a child-- to perhaps not really grasp it, but to know that our Father loves us when we pee in the tub.