The word of the day

It's fun to learn a word you never heard of before.  I was recently driven to the dictionary when I saw the word besotted in the following quote from Marcus Borg in The Character of God:

"For just a moment think of the difference in your life if you knew that at the deepest level of you being that God is besotted with you, that God yearns for you, yearns that you turn and be in relationship with God as the beloved of God."

Of course you can guess the meaning from the context, but the dictionary defines besotted as "strongly infatuated."  An archaic meaning is "intoxicated; drunkenness."  That's strange language to describe God's desire for us.  Maybe not.  Consider the words of a hymn attributed to Paul Gerhardt, 1653:

Love caused Your incarnation,

Love brought You down to me;

Your thirst for my salvation

Procured my liberty.

If God is really thirsty for us, the question of the day is:  how can we assuage God's thirst?