Does unconditional love exist and if so, what does it look like? Do we see or can we fathom a love without boundaries and that will sacrifice itself for the sake of another? Do we know a love that forgives without memory of the fault? Do we know of a love that will pick us back up after each and every mistake we make? Do we know a love that seeks our best knowing the person we really are? This is a love that goes beyond our expectations and farther than we can hope for, and it never tires of giving. It is a love that we cannot understand and cannot measure. It is beyond logic. It is above pride, arrogance, and the self. This kind of love continues to remain a mystery tied up in being freely given but never earned. It is a love that bears with hatred, pain, suffering, and evil, and continues to love back? I believe we have all seen glimpses of this love in the generosity of others, in a kind face that looks past our shortcomings, and in the connection of being with old friends.
This love is the very thing that will free our hearts and our soul when we find it. It is something beyond the love of another person because humans fail each other. That is not to say that we should cease all attempts at loving each other. But rather, unconditional love is something that we all want to know. We want to know complete acceptance, security, and freedom. We all want to know that we are safe and free from harm. We want to be known, and to be free from the boundaries of wrongful expectations, prejudices, judgments, criticism, and shame. We want peace and confidence in knowing what it means to have hope and future. We want relief from the searching, the pain, the doubts, and the fears. Life is pain and emptiness without love and unfortunately, human love cannot fill the void of knowing a love without conditions. There must be a higher source for a love that is pure and holy, a love without constraints and hesitations.
All good things in this life stem from and come about because of love. But unconditional love, the truest of all loves, only comes from one source, God the giver of life. God's love has no bounds and cannot be replaced by anything on this earth. This love is able to free us from the struggle of this life. The love of God is the only true love that we can know. It releases us from past sins, past mistakes, and past faults and makes us new. My hope, my aim, is to find and to know this love in my life. That I may be known for how I have shared the love of God. May my love be as unconditional as I am can make it to those who have only known the rules of Christianity. May the love of my God be big enough to handle the doubts, the hurts, and the regrets of those burned by love. May my life be able to demonstrate a life and heart changed by the love of God.
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Your life has definitely shown that God has made you into a man that knows and feels His love. I see it in so many ways, but especially in the way you love Laura and Paige. Thanks Aaron for those words of thought and wisdom and reminding us of God's awesome unconditional Love. Love, Marilyn
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