Seeing True

If You Can't Love Everyone, It's Not Love:
Love has no conditions and no expectations
(Note: I learned this the hard way, a story told in this blog)

First, this painstaking reality. It’s not very easy to get over all the things within us that keep us from loving without condition. In fact, it proves to be the work of a life time, always moving toward an impossible ideal, and never quite arriving because there is always something or someone new to push us beyond our limits and reveal the judgments within us.

Here's a simple assignment for this week of loving that leads to Valentines Day:

Who do you believe you love? Do you have any expectations of them? Do you place any conditions upon them?

Who do you not love? What expectations or conditions do you project that keeps you from love?

My long-time mentor, the one who facilitated this inner work with me, would say that it is a most powerful medicine for what ails us, as individuals and collectively.

Full story here:

A Backstory for "Grace Resurrected" (Book #4 of the Saga of Grace)
Reflections on Living Out Radical Grace as a Way of Being

The present challenges of our world present a unique circumstance for all of us. Here are a few thoughts to complement this new series of Contemplations on Grace.

Radical Grace is not permissiveness — it is non-reactivity:

Non-judgment does not mean nothing matters.
Unconditionality does not mean everything is acceptable.
Forgiveness does not mean harm is ignored.

It means:

Our work in the world does not shame or diminish others.
We prioritize dignity rather than deficiencies.
Accountability without humiliation.
Repair transcends punishment.

That which is unhealed in us will be expressed through us, which is why violence begets more violence even if most subtle.

That which is whole within us will heal others and the world.

The question is not whether we take action, rather how we act without punishment and harm.

Better still, how do we reform or create culture that is restorative?

This a call to love in action through the lives we are living.

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