Unconditional...
Unconditional: not subject to any conditions.
Oddly enough the Lord has deemed it fit, a week before Valentines Day, to bombard my thoughts and heart with the words Unconditional Love, today.
In a recent conversation someone said "the word love is over used. I only say it if I mean it." I haven't dwelled on that conversation much since, but this morning it came back to me - then the challenging words of the Spirit - "Even if someone hasn't lived up to your expectations or has let you down....you do and still can say "I love them", that's unconditional Aimie."
As those words spoke so soundly through my spirit man, my heart was convicted. It's SO incredibly easy for me to love my girls unconditionally - as I am fully aware that they are 1 and 2 years old, and are still learning right from wrong. I can understand God's love for us in a WHOLE new way, since becoming a mom. Yes, I do get flustered and aggravated with them at times, and yes, sometimes I lose my patience. Never do I NOT love because of their actions, though.
While I can love my children unconditionally...I must confess that I cant say that I love adults unconditionally - all the time. I could easily drop a BAZILLION excuses as to why - but honestly, if I'm called to live as Christ lived...my excuses are like fences - blocking me from living this life as God would have me live it - FULLY.
I only hurt myself by loving people conditionally. We are human, and we will fail, and we will fail to meet people's expectations. Just ask my girls. :) If they could fully express it in words, they'd surely tell you how they were hurt when Mommy lost her patience with them. I too am a work in progress, and while I say that I can love my girls unconditionally, cause they are small and still learning, if I dont nip this conditional love issue in the bud now....I wont be able to love them unconditionally when "I feel" they are "old enough to know better".
It's a domino effect. I must not try to work on loving unconditionally to make me a better person though. I must do it so that others can feel and know what it's like to be loved unconditionally. I want my daughters to know that I love them, no matter WHAT they do or dont do. I am loved SO unconditionally by the most AMAZING Father in Heaven. He only asks that I love others that way too....
Unconditional - not subject to ANY conditions....
NONE. No conditions. None at all. Not even ones that "society" or "our world" says should be.
Love: an intense feeling of deep affection.
Nothing should hold us back from our intense feelings of deep affection for others.
THAT is love.
Oddly enough the Lord has deemed it fit, a week before Valentines Day, to bombard my thoughts and heart with the words Unconditional Love, today.
In a recent conversation someone said "the word love is over used. I only say it if I mean it." I haven't dwelled on that conversation much since, but this morning it came back to me - then the challenging words of the Spirit - "Even if someone hasn't lived up to your expectations or has let you down....you do and still can say "I love them", that's unconditional Aimie."
As those words spoke so soundly through my spirit man, my heart was convicted. It's SO incredibly easy for me to love my girls unconditionally - as I am fully aware that they are 1 and 2 years old, and are still learning right from wrong. I can understand God's love for us in a WHOLE new way, since becoming a mom. Yes, I do get flustered and aggravated with them at times, and yes, sometimes I lose my patience. Never do I NOT love because of their actions, though.
While I can love my children unconditionally...I must confess that I cant say that I love adults unconditionally - all the time. I could easily drop a BAZILLION excuses as to why - but honestly, if I'm called to live as Christ lived...my excuses are like fences - blocking me from living this life as God would have me live it - FULLY.
I only hurt myself by loving people conditionally. We are human, and we will fail, and we will fail to meet people's expectations. Just ask my girls. :) If they could fully express it in words, they'd surely tell you how they were hurt when Mommy lost her patience with them. I too am a work in progress, and while I say that I can love my girls unconditionally, cause they are small and still learning, if I dont nip this conditional love issue in the bud now....I wont be able to love them unconditionally when "I feel" they are "old enough to know better".
It's a domino effect. I must not try to work on loving unconditionally to make me a better person though. I must do it so that others can feel and know what it's like to be loved unconditionally. I want my daughters to know that I love them, no matter WHAT they do or dont do. I am loved SO unconditionally by the most AMAZING Father in Heaven. He only asks that I love others that way too....
Unconditional - not subject to ANY conditions....
NONE. No conditions. None at all. Not even ones that "society" or "our world" says should be.
Love: an intense feeling of deep affection.
Nothing should hold us back from our intense feelings of deep affection for others.
THAT is love.
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