Love

I certainly recognize that – being human – there are certain things I cannot fathom. I simply don’t have the brain power. It may just be me, but I can't comprehend where the universe ends. Then, if I could possibly figure out where the universe ended, what’s on the other side of that? I don’t understand infinity. In many ways, I have the same cognitive limitation with understanding unconditional love. I have difficulty carrying unconditional love in my heart for everyone in every situation. Unfortunately, I recognize where these limitations might place me on a graph showing the love-spectrum of entities on this earth… somewhere below the natural ability of most dogs. Dogs love unconditionally.

 

Even considering my position of understanding unconditional love clearly below that of the ability of certain pets, I can’t comprehend casting those who have wronged me into a lake of eternal fire. (I can’t even comprehend the word “eternal”.) So, this leaves me with a conundrum. Although I remember the person I was; someone who actually sought negative ramifications towards those who were not acting properly – and properly being completely subjective to my own point of view at the time – I no longer have any desire to see or cause punishment to anyone for almost any infraction. It is the word “almost” that represents my inability to love unconditionally.

 

I do not have the mental or emotional or spiritual ability to fathom universal truths and concepts such as “infinity” or “unconditional love”. However, I have taken the small step of understanding that there are things which I don’t know; that there are truths beyond my comprehension. All I have to do is look at the stars in the sky, and I immediately recognize my limitations. All I have to do is watch a dog great its master – even someone I might deem as unlovable – with complete unconditional love and I recognize my limited abilities. And, with my limitations fully acknowledged, I also see clearly, that my love for myself and others has grown and grown with the same consistency as my pain and fears were exposed over and over for all these years. I also see clearly that my ability to love exceeds what I was taught as a child to be the love of God. The love they taught was completely conditional. 

 

Our source is as an energy of oneness that supersedes the earthly phrase; “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It is an infinite power that allows us to think or feel or do whatever our heart desires, good or bad, over and over, life after life, and still loves us unconditionally.

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This concept may seem unbelievable, but it is no more unbelievable than a universe with no walls, and it is a concept that I aspire to some day experience, "on earth as it is in heaven".