Day 5: Unconditional

Unconditional is one of my all time favorites songs.  If you aren't familiar with Willy Porter, he is a fantastic musician and a Milwaukee local.  I used to babysit for his kids when I was in high school.  They are a great family!
All of the lyrics to this song are thoughtfully and beautifully written.  It is about seeing reflections of God's unconditional love in our world. The first few lines of the song go like this:

She said "I will always love you, no matter what may come.

I carried you inside myself, the two of us are one. 

No matter how you fall down, or how it comes undone

to me you will always be shining."

Willy illustrates God's love through the relationship of a mother and her baby.  Often when I pray, I refer to God as "Father," but I have found that He often fills both parental roles in my life in many ways.  That is how great His love is.

God's love is so great and so deep - much of it is still a mystery.  As I have grown up, I have constantly found new places that God's love can go.  I love the lines to this song, because that is exactly what God thinks of us.  We are His children, we are a part and a reflection of Him.  God saw us as beautiful on the day we were born, and still sees us as beautiful and we grow up and "come undone."

There isn't too much I can say today, because Willy's lyrics are so poignant and beautiful.  I can relate this, however: sometimes when I go home on a break from school, and I am with my parents, we hug a lot and talk a lot.  But another thing my parents do is look at me.  My mom says she likes to just look at me sitting there on our couch.  When she looks at me, she doesn't just see college Sarah, she see's the past 20 years.  Everything I've done and everything I've become up to that point.  She sees the things that are like her, and the things that are like my dad.  She sees the triumphs and the struggles.

I think through the love of my parents, I have experienced a glimpse of what God's unconditional love is like.  When I go away to college, and then come back home, the door is still open and their love is still there.  When my parents see me, they see everything in me.  I am transparent to them, and their love still abounds.  God can see even more than that, and His love is always waiting.  
~SP