God's Love

I've been contemplating hipsters, honestly. I was pondering why people can make things cool by saying they're cool. I started thinking about how there are so many beautiful and amazing things in this world, why do we need anyone to say anything is cool? In reality everything about us is a miracle, everything that surrounds us, defines us, the fact that we exist is a miracle. That lead me to thinking about God's love. Because honestly, it doesn't matter whether God is black, white, green, yellow, Muslim, gay, Jewish, Shiva, Krishna, or whatever because no matter what form he takes his love is so evident in everyday life. That infinite love that I see and feel every moment of every day tells me that it doesn't matter whether I'm black, white, green, yellow, Muslim, gay, Jewish, Hindi, Hari Krishna, or a thief, a murderer, a saint, an astronomer, historian, or whatever. God's love tells me that as long as I'm the kind of person that I can accept myself in his presence I will be happy someday. In this life or the next. Because being the kind of person that can accept unconditional love, accept it and take it into our lives without attempting to extortion, manipulate, deny, pride, humiliate, or take advantage of for personal gain or for personal damnation. Being someone that can honestly accept that someone loves you infinitely is hard and powerful. It's my belief in this kind of love that makes me believe that the LDS(Mormon) perspective of the after life has it right. Because as long as you're willing to let yourself remain in his presence you'll find happiness. I personally believe that liars, thieves, killers, and what not once they've come to the knowledge of that true and infinite Godly love that our father in heaven has for them will Damn themselves. No judge required, just the knowledge of true and infinite love. God says to each and everyone of us everyday, "I wish you didn't do that dumb thing, but I still love you. I still look forward to the day you'll come home so I can hug you and let you know that even though you made a mistake I love you more than you may ever be able to comprehend." It's that love that says to me he's provided a way to become like him, to become Gods like He. There's a historical trend that say parents wish their children can achieve at least what they have if not higher heights. Parents wish to see that in their children, they wish them happiness. God, who knows an eternal and infinite love, would desire the same for his children, no? He knows the happiness and joy that this love brings him, despite all the pains and sorrows from seeing our mistakes, hurts, anger, our pain and our sorrows. God knows us so well that he offers a way for us to forgive ourselves. He knows that our innate reaction is to condemn ourselves, he offers the knowledge of his forgiveness. He tells us that if someone loves us so much and forgives us and our actions, maybe we can too? Someone who truly knows and understands all of our faults and still says you're beautiful, I love you. Still hopes in us, provides the comfort that we may feel like we do horrible things there is still love for us in this great big Universe. I say God's love is so prevalent in my life because without it my life would truly be a despair. I see someone looking at the sky on a bench outside a theater and I know that what she's seeing is God's love. I walk along a mountain path and marvel at the grandeur of all that lies before me and see God's hand in providing something for me to appreciate. He allows me to feel humble in a way that is in no way self deprecating. He provides us on this Earth families that we can grow together with, start learning how to love despite their shortcomings. Families that allow us to love despite our shortcoming. Families that allow us to feel love despite the fact that we hate ourselves. Provides us with animals that have complete understanding of who we are and who we need. That guide us towards compassion, love, and devotion to something that cannot always show appreciation so that one day we can be more like Him. Sometimes I think about things, and sometimes those thinkings make me learn something. I hope you learned something, I hope I can learn this something. I hope that you can enjoy my grand adventure called life. Maybe I won't get it all right, but maybe I'll help you get it right, but for now these are the things I think I learned in my adventure.