Thanks for writing my very heart so perfectly :-D! Let me add the following thought! The foreknowledge of His love even plans our wayward straying around to work for our very best as His love has in mind for us. And even the pain and suffering we have to endure during our stray will work out the perfect fruit in the end His unconditional love has destined to bless us with before He even has formed us in our mothers womb.
Without His love we’re nothing because true life is nourished from the water-streams of love and protects us even then when we spit His face blinded and in ignorance that the very love we trample upon will be the very source that foresees the blessed day when finally love will break through with us and the eternal plans of love will manifest In His glory becoming visible in us.
No, there truly remains nothing we can boast in… nothing alt all! There only remains the PRAISE OF LOVE throughout all eternity. It was love who created the universe and mankind and love will be praised without end in the ones love has chosen to be the image of itself.

He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. IN LOVE he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIS WILL TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GRACE (and LOVE, too!!!!), with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, TO UNITE ALL THINGS IN HIM, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY (… and LOVE!).
Eph. 1, 4-12

Pride and selfishness bring forth control, but the Father’s genuine, selfless love relinquishes all control, allows free will, but in foreknowledge of our waywardness, provides the Way back to His loving, uncondemning arms.

“Instead he planned in advance to create deer trails using a salt lick, and put markers up in the woods so she could find her way home when she got lost.”