Love.
Something I don't pretend to know all that much about.
I'm proud to say I'm still learning about love....we all are.
Learning to love ourselves, our environment, and one another.
It's funny when you think about it...the same things we're trying to love most times seem like the hardest. They're the ones that we sometimes perceive as bringing us down, resisting us, giving us a hard time...and have us questioning ourselves....."do we have enough to give?".
As much as we think we love...there's something absolutely divine in the unconditional way of it. We meet people in this world who require our unconditional love...while never having to answer to the question "why?". It's just done. It just happens. Loving unconditionally doesn't mean our love will be returned. It doesn't mean we'll be rewarded. Unconditional, by nature, just isn't about us.
Unconditional love cannot be controlled. Its beyond reason. It however, requires receptivity. This might be the hardest part. Letting go, and letting love in. Feeling like we deserve what someone else is about to hand our way so freely. What makes us deserve this...love? We feel unworthy. Unsure.
If you're the one handing out this gift of love, it's one of question...one of mystery. Because it guides you, not the other way around. You find yourself in a way with the world around you that you haven't quite experienced. The forgiveness flows, the compassion undying.
Unconditional love doesn't have to run terribly deep. It just requires acceptance. On both parts, really. I'm not quite sure it's to be understood. Or if it needs to be. Because I mean really...LOVE...it's just amazing.
Simplistic by nature, love allows us to expand from the inside out. No restraints and no expectations. It allows us to live in the moment and truly experience fully while we're there. It moves past the existence of our deepest fears and into a place in our hearts that surprises us.
If we surrender to this space, and to the people/places/things offering it to us...well...I feel like it defines the meaning of life. To be unified...to be vast...to be unafraid...and to be protected.
Unconditional love is around you in some form, in some way. Welcome the idea of welcoming love into your ever-changing universe.
Everything will change, but love remains the same.
