I have a dear friend who holds tightly to the saying “Love Fearlessly and Unconditionally”. It takes but once of meeting her to know to your core that she it is her passion to love people with everything God places in her.

When you spend time with her her love and care is so profound and so real and pure that it feels tangible. It feels as though it is a blanket that is wrapped around me warm and safe. It is the kind of love that only God can provide, because its deep enough and pure enough and true enough that it is truly safe and it is truly tangible and it is truly real. It is hte kind of love that our heart yearn for with each beat – the kind of love we were created to experience and to share constantly. And yet it is a kind of love that is all to rare in our world today.
It is the love that redefines words… where safety is not about locks and security – but about the ability to overcome and move beyond due to the network of love and care surrounding….
where safe is not about doors or objects… but about emotions and identity – opinions and thoughts – dreams and expression
it is warm – it is comforting – it is enveloping – it is real. And if we focus on God we can carry it around with us. Though all to often it slips away when daily life distracts us with it’s “emergencies” and “urgencies”

What would it look like if I could love even one single person like that tomorrow?
What would it look like if I could love my parents like that?
Or my colleagues?
Or the person that I have yet to meet?

What if I was so grounded in my relationship with God and who God says I am and how safe and loved God says I am…..
that I could pour out that love so freely to everyone I come in contact with?

That love that my dear friend shared – that she wrapped me up in when in saw her today – that is the love that we are all called to share… to experience and then to overflow in it so that it splashes out and touches all the lives around us.

But how do I put that into action in my life today?

I want to LOVE like that. I want to LIVE like that.