Psalm 36

"Your love, Yahweh, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds;
your righteousness is like the mountains of God,
your judgments like the mighty deep."
Psalm 36:5-6

How does one comprehend and experience love? Scientists have tracked the physical responses people have to being loved and they have found that the body works better when the person has a deep sense of being loved by others. The person has a stronger immune system and a more positive outlook on life as well as many other measurable results.
But how does one know that they are loved by God? Are the same characteristics present? Is it something that can be physically felt? Is it something that you just have to experience but can't really explain to someone unless they have known it themselves? Is it even possible to comprehend that God, the creator of the universe, loves even an individual like me?
For me the times I feel loved by God the most is when I stand in places where I seem infinently small. In the midst of the mountains or the vast stretches of the plains of North America I look around at everything and I find myself in the midst of God's vast love. It doesn't make sense in a lot of ways and I'm not sure I can really explain it any better than that. But maybe the psalmist that I quoted above says it better than I can. Maybe God's love is just something that you have to let yourself fall into and not analyze any more than is necessary.