Unconditional LOVE, we keep hearing about unconditional LOVE. What’s that? Is it romantically “loving” someone so deeply and truly? Or, is it just blindly accepting whatever and just going along with however, whatever presents itself. The English word “LOVE” has so many meanings and so many nuances that the term “unconditional LOVE” seems difficult to define.
The Mirriam-Webster dictionary uses many terms to define the varied meanings for LOVE. The most appropriate for our discussion is “to cherish, to take pleasure in”. When we take pleasure in something…we LOVE it! Likewise, I take cherish bubble baths…I LOVE bubble baths! My husband takes pleasure in building operating systems for computers…he LOVES his work!
Unconditional is defined as “not limited in any way”. Put these two terms together and you have…I AM not limited in any way about the way I feel about the pleasure I take in bubble baths, or…I unconditionally LOVE bubble baths. Let’s widen the field a bit and say I unconditionally LOVE my husband, or…I AM not limited in any way about the pleasure I find in my husband. Sure, I get upset at him when he leaves dirty towels on the floor, but that doesn’t dissolve either our marriage or my unconditional love for him.
I don’t accept that sloppy action of his and gently (most of the time) ask him to put his dirty clothes in the clothes hamper. Case closed. The point here is not to ignore a bad situation, or to over react and go into a flaming rage, but to accept …deal with it…and go on to happier, more satisfying and pleasurable times, things, and ideas
Unconditional LOVE is always your idea from your perspective. If someone else has unconditional LOVE for you…great, that is from their perspective…not yours. Unconditional LOVE eradicates judgement…that is, unconditional love does not judge, but always “is not limited in any way.” Maybe this is what Christ meant by his urging us “not to judge”.
Let’s look at this yet another way. Read this article that has some great statements about unconditional love: http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/unconditional-acceptance-what
Enjoy!
cindyloucbp (www.roserambles.org)
