“Unconditional love.”

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There is little more scary than the idea of unconditional love. The very idea that love is tied to neither conduct nor outcome, stands against all the safety and dogma we feed into what love should be, to us. It is not that we want a standard conduct on which love is based. We have that already. It is not that we want it to be balanced. We say we do but we really do not. What scares us the most is the high gate we too must face if love must be who we are. We are afraid that we will get unconditional love and then, we will have to give it too.

That is the other part of understanding God’s whole point about love. We are not just receivers of this great concepts of love and grace and hope and faith. We are being made into givers of that same light.

And there is the divine puzzle: this will not happen overnight. You will not be cured of your self at once but over a lifetime. Love starts in realizing that you are loved without condition. It tells you that this is your inherent value. You are worthy of love. It teaches you that your sentient life has value and you do not have to believe the worse versions of yourself as destiny. There is much more to come. Then it tells you, mistake after mistake, that you will be fine. That you can stand up. You will not be cured in moments but over your whole life. Then it whispers to you, as you rather like this lifelong trajectory of a love you cannot break, to apply this same idea to everyone else you meet. That too, will take a lifetime. But, dear daughter, you can start today.