Unconditional Love

Once we have been disciplined and instructed enough we reach a place of wisdom and we are able to take action on that instruction. Next we get to a place of unconditional love. We are able to love without conditions attached. We begin to understand that we all are connected, we all have pain and suffering, we all are created in God's image, and that we all are searching for the same things - peace, acceptance, love. We actually have taken on the mind of Christ and begin to see the world around us as God does. This is why Jesus came into this world. Yes to save us from our sin and redeem us, but also to teach how life is to be lived. God in the flesh showing us how to love, how to be humble, and how to regonized that God is everywhere. Jesus came to help us have life and have it more abundantly, this means now in this life. Jesus came not only to make things right with us and God, but to make things right between each other. What could be more abundant that a place where people have that kind of love one for another? Love is the highest calling, the holy calling. I know no better place that talks about this process than I Corinthians 13.

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

Love today. End any conflict you have with anyone with love. If you do there is nothing to fight about anymore. Jesus was on the cross after being beaten, people making fun of him, a spear thrust in his side, given vinegar to drink, people gambling over his clothes, and spitting on him. He had every reason to be "right" and show them he was God. Rather he ended this conflict with love and said "Forgive them for they do not know what they are doing." Remember that we all do our best and sometimes we just need forgiveness and love to stop fighting.

Namaste'