"Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ," (NIV)
"Grace" and "peace" can be found in the greetings of all of Paul's letters, so it is no surprise that his letter to the Galatians keeps the trend alive.
The phrase "God our Father" seems especially significant to me in this context. As explained in the notes of my study Bible, Galatians lacks thanksgiving in the greeting, an element found in almost all of Paul's letters. This gives us a hint that Paul was disgusted with the Galatians (for reasons explained later in his letter). However, despite his anger, Paul remembers that we are all children of God. Galatians is a letter of rebuke, but it is a loving rebuke, from one child of God to another: a brotherly rebuke. In this way, Paul assures the Galatians that he is correcting them for their own good and not for his pleasure.
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