Meditation: God's love

Every single thing God created
God loves
completely
unconditionally
always

because
every single thing was created in love 
by love.

A child is born accepting
all the love that is showered upon it
completely
without conditions.

But the child learns its failings and secret shames and learns 
to deflect love
decline to receive
to feel unworthy of love.

The most evil person or angel
God created
God loves
completely
unconditionally
always.

But sometimes the walls we create
are so tall
so thick
so carefully made
that we believe
even God cannot get love through or over.

Despite our best efforts
the love keeps coming,
and maybe it is not until the eternal moment of our death
that we can learn to become again like little children
and accept that every single thing God created
God loves
completely
unconditionally
always.


Perhaps because "God is Love" the concept of love is so hard for us. We know love - know what it looks like, feels like. We know what lack of love feels like. But only babies (and, I suspect, dying people) seem to have a real appreciation or experience of the depth and reality of unconditional love.

Suggestions for meditation
Always begin by offering your time to God: something like "My loving God, I love you with my whole heart and above all things. I give you this time when I am reaching out to you" and then a few moments reminding yourself of some of the blessings God has given you - the clear signs of God's love for you.

Read the mediation over slowly a couple of times.

Listen for Jesus' personal message for you.

If you would prefer a Bible reading I suggest Matthew 18,2-4

2 So Jesus called a child to come and stand in front of them, 3 and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. 4 The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child." 

1. Read this passage or the meditation slowly a couple of times.
2. What word of phrase jumps out to speak to you?
3. Why? Try to put yourself into those words. Maybe imagine Jesus speaking, and reply.
4. Then spend 5, or 10, or 20 minutes with those words, or the words Love like a child. You might want to begin the meditation using the breathing exercise I suggest in We have two minds. After a minute or two focused on your breathing, move your focus to the word/s you have chosen. 

Each time your attention moves away from the word/s, push the distraction gently aside and return to the word ("without the intervention of analytical thought" as The Cloud of Unknowing puts it).

You may need a countdown clock. 

At the end thank God, and return to your day.