We are not of this world, but while we are in it, we ought to love and forgive unconditionally and hope we receive the same. For life is a gift, but it does not come wrapped in everyone loving each other.
THINK HARD ABOUT INFORMATION
Maybe this is the problem, people are not thinking that hard.
When you look around at all our problems, shouldn’t people be thinking hard?
If we expect little from each other, that is exactly what we will get.
Unless you are content with what is happening and you really do not love your neighbor: Democrat, Republican or Independent.
I do not overestimate people.
We are all capable of much more, but we often expect concrete examples of how something works before we dig deep and get to work.
In the case of unconditional love, that would be like asking an eye doctor to give examples of what you will see when you are no longer blind.
For example, if I tried to explain that you would mourn for terrible people when they get sick and how that would deeply affect people around you in a positive way when you explain why you feel that way, you would probably just close this page and move on. Hope you are still here. Ever heard the saying, You cannot put new wine in old wineskins?
So if you must have examples of how this would work in our present political problems, trust your gut. Read each sentence and ask your heart and mind if it rings true.
The conflict is not simply over correct or false information.
For correct information only enables us to carry out our view of the world.
And presently that view is based on the fact that what is most important to us is OURselves, OUR family, OUR religion or worldview, and OUR nation in any order.
The conflict is first between this conditional view of life and the unconditional view that makes others’ growth more important than our own — without being against ourselves.
The appearance that helping those who are against us can only work against us is true only when all else fails.
Like being in the back seat with a blind person driving you, helping them helps you. But you cannot help them without unconditionally loving and forgiving them.
Only when one side does this is it possible for others to join in to hold each other up for the growth of the one family house-of-life.
Then, correct information enables us to carry out our unconditional view without being against each other.
Correct information working with the conditional view keeps us divided below the surface.
False information with either view prevents both sides from carrying out their work.
But with the unconditional view, false information loses its power to divide us.
For we are not focused on helping ourselves alone. We are also focused on helping others of our national family who do not want our help — but need our love to open their eyes.
THE UNCONDITIONAL VIEW
Adopting this view successfully requires knowing how to sustain it, which is hard to understand — but for the most part, only if we choose not to think hard about it.
In knowledge of Word (Truth or Christ depending on our beliefs), Peter said that much of what Paul wrote is hard to understand, which the unlearned (in spiritual knowledge not secular knowledge) twist to their own failing.
Now, I understand that referring to someone as unlearned is often offensive but that is not my intention at all. But first consider how others who disagree with such people are calling them much worse things on social media.
If I used uneducated, ignorant, illiterate, unschooled, untutored, unlettered, or untaught, would that help? What should we call someone who does not have a degree in physics, ignorant, uneducated, or simply unlearned in physics?
Now untrained in physics is softer, but somehow that does not fit when it comes to matters of the heart. So forgive me if referring to such brothers and sisters as unlearned offends anyone. After all, we are learning here how to love the unlearned too, which we all are at some point in life.
The first thing the unlearned tell us is that learning such things is too hard, confusing, or simply wrong and not worth our time.
Paul interpreted Word on many levels, the spiritual one being hard to understand and thus the level we need today.
May we not make the same mistake today and disregard it, spending years on secular education while opting out when spiritual logic challenges us.
JUST COULDN’T WITH THAT VIEW
If she only knew how to avoid the cliffs outside her heart, she could fill the world with her love.
Couldn’t get out of bed until she worshiped herself for five minutes.
Couldn’t get out of the house until she worshiped her children at breakfast.
Couldn’t get out of the neighborhood until she adored some neighbors.
Couldn’t get out of the city until she allied her mind with the right leaders.
Couldn’t get out of the nation until she prepared herself to see suffering in the world.
Couldn’t get to sleep without crying inside and promising herself she wouldn’t leave home tomorrow.
The most difficult part of thinking is doing so with our heart.
Thinking without the heart is called judging.
Thinking with the heart alone is feelings alone.
Proof according to the laws of spirituality: The Mind of the Heart
THE LIGHT NEVER FORGETS US
I just want to remind all of you how wonderful our spiritual soul is.
It is where our living wealth is stored.
Everyone has an initial deposit there made in their name as a gift.
Do not let the worries of life cloud your view of it.
Take a breath and sit for a while with the treasure in your spiritual soul.
But a society that refuses to grow up is like a child whose mother tells him no.
He refuses to believe it is for his good, choking his own love for her until he finds someone who will give him what he wants.
Child-society never learns to see beyond the surface.
In the land of light, the blind are afraid to open their eyes and look at the love they have been refusing.
FINAL THOUGHT
Consider how many of our relationships are dependent on sharing moral/ethical beliefs, which are relationships based on conditional love.
When our beliefs involving life and death differ, as was the case with Covid-19, we are no longer able to love each other in such relationships. We are in survival mode.
True democratic love is unconditional, regardless of beliefs, since it requires the realization, not just belief, that love is greater than this physical life and all our beliefs about it.
Democrats, Republicans and Independents each have their beliefs that cancel out their love, which is why there are only two fundamental sides in a democracy, unconditional and conditional love.
We can stand up for our beliefs respectfully when we have unconditional love, and we can forgive those with opposing views when disrespecting us because, being spiritually blind due to their disrespect, they do not know what they are doing in the big picture.
Each side can say the others are blind, but the side that forgives and shows unconditional love holds our best hope for compromise.
Suggested reading:
The Principle and Moral/Ethical Standards
Leading with love is a powerful way to move through the world and doing so can provide us great healing - loving and accepting other’s unconditionally demands that we love and accept ourselves. More times than not this is harder work. The more I accept the entirety of me the greater my ability to accept and have patience with others. This planet is clearly going through a transition. We have a great opportunity to get clear on how we want to live, how we want to show up for one another. I agree, George, leading with acceptance and love will provide the greatest outcome for all. Thanks for your post.
George,
We often speak as though better information alone will heal division, but history continually shows that people can possess facts and still use them in the service of fear, self-preservation, pride, or power. Scripture points to this as well.
Knowledge by itself does not transform the heart; in some cases, it can even deepen division when love is absent. That’s why Christ continually moves beneath behavior and argument into motive, posture, and orientation of the soul. The deeper conflict is not merely intellectual, but spiritual and relational.
At the same time, I think it’s important to carefully define what “unconditional love” means biblically.
God’s love is freely offered and deeply merciful, but it is not the same as affirming every belief, action, or worldview as equally true. Jesus loved unconditionally, yet He still confronted falsehood, called people to repentance, and spoke hard truths when necessary.
So I don’t think unconditional love means dissolving conviction or abandoning discernment. I think it means refusing to let disagreement cancel our recognition of another person’s humanity and worth. It means loving in a way that seeks restoration rather than domination.
I believe that is where your point lands most powerfully: the side willing to forgive, remain humble, and keep loving even while holding convictions, may actually be the side most capable of breaking the cycle of mutual blindness.
Blessings,
Ze Selassie