It is outside our realm of understanding what unconditional love actually is. We talk about it like it is something we should all expect of ourselves or others. Living in a limited bodily experience means we can have moments of it. Just as everything cycles there are times when it is there and times when it is not. The moment we think we have grasped it we lose it. God is the embodiment of unconditional love. Because God is love and nothing else. We get a taste through other people or experiences but to fully know can only come from experience with God. I do not mean a God of our human understanding but something beyond even that. Most of what we carry around in our notion of God is an idea of God in human image. With God, love is like basking in the sun. It is a complete and total experience. It is not something that will wax and wain. It is all-consuming and cannot be turned away from. It is not a human fault that we cannot comprehend the unconditionality of love. It is in the design. As St. Augustine put it many years ago, “our heart is restless until it finds is rest in thee.” We are created to be in a relationship with God. The kind of relationship we will not get anywhere else. The best thing we can do for ourselves is let go of our ideas of what we think we know about God and love and dare to imagine what it would be like to simply bask in the gaze of a beloved being who sees nothing other than love.It takes creativity to set aside what we have hard-wired into our brain based on the limitations of love we experience as corporal beings. But with God all things are possible.
Are we open to creatively exploring what it would be like to bask in the love of God if only for a moment today?
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