Friday, April 11, 2025
If love wins, then it’s not love because real love has no loser, no opponent, and most assuredly no winner. That’s because real Love is not embattled.
Can you love those who want nothing to do with you? Can you love those who vote for conservatives or liberals? Can you love those who disagree? Can you love convicted felons and pedophiles? Can you love those who leave you out? Does love win? Possibly rethought -the unconditionality of love wins. That’s a very different lens through which to see love “winning.”
So what does love require of us? To seek justice (non competitive), to love kindness (practice nicely), and to walk humbly with what is (nonresistance). The moment you notice that prickly sensation that something seems unfair, you drop it. Winning is dropping out of the competition. There is no victory nor victim in love’s freewill.
You can get the hang of loving the freewill of others. You can’t love your own freedom and want others to be enslaved to your preferences. It can’t work that way. You allow others the luxury of their own freewill. Does that mean you allow them to abuse you? Of course not. But it doesn’t give you the right to abuse. The cessation of violence is you and you alone.
If you are attacked, you may not attack. Why? Love doesn’t attack. Whatever seems to be aggressing is masquerading as love’s so-called enemy. If you don’t attack, there is no enemy. Your aggression creates the enemy. You can defend yourself, but self-defense and retaliation are quite different. If attacked with a knife your sure defense would kick in – instinct. But revenge is a completely different issue. Love is an objector to violence and does so conscientiously.