I hear the word Unconditional Love today and I'm drawn to the desert... The sun's light sorta reflects on the sand. It's not hot though, air is mild. It's quiet... Sort've to my right, on the floor is a little boy...2, 3 years old...His knee is up to his chin. His head is large, limbs thin as sticks, tummy the size of a balloon. Large eyes. He's just staring back at me... In his eyes, deep, large, dark...He has seen death. His eyes are quiet. He seems a breath short of dying. Yet...there is something else in his calling eyes. His eyes don't leave me. Mine don't leave his... What I would do to just feed him and feed him within seconds... but I know that I'd have to feed him slowly over time to ensure his growth... I realise then...that Unconditional Love, is loving and yearning for Life...even when it may seem that it doesn't love you.... Forget romantic notions of Unconditional Love - this is it's truest meaning. The need to live and see it grow. My eyes tell him Im with him til the end of whatever, no stronger conviction.
....Then on the other hand, to have your heart touched by Unconditional Love. To know it and feel it's soft touch, is very warming, reassuring, comforting. Makes all the harder times, easier to get through. To know someone whispers "always with you, never alone"...even if only in Spirit, is by far the greatest gift I've ever known.
....To give it to others....Once touched, I like to believe that Unconditional Love is a pure love that goes out to all. It is not judgemental on whom it chooses to Love. It sees all as its brother and sister. It does not say "I will love you but uhhh I will not love you. You are bad. You are good." It will say "though you choose to bite me, though you choose to snarl and deem me unworthy, all my heart sees in your eyes is Love".
Love....I get drunk on this word...so better jet before my message gets longer and emotion stronger...
Peace and moonbeams,
Z. x