So much is said in the world about unconditional love that it has become a terminology, a cause, an effort, and sometimes a pretense. When you reach this place of what is called unconditional love, you simply won't think about it. Love is not like learning something and then applying it. Loving unconditionally doesn't mean you don't see certain conditions. It doesn't mean you dodge them either. It doesn't mean kidding yourself.
It is good to have the intention to love no matter what, yet let go of love as a precept.
Love is not all about an action, beloveds. It is about a state of Being. It is a natural state. It has to be a natural state, or it is forced or a pretense.
To tell someone to love unconditionally is like telling someone who sits on the first rung of a ladder that he must instantly jump himself up to the top rung. He isn't at the top rung. He is on the first rung, or the second or third. When he is on the top rung, nothing needs to be said about it at all.
It is like, if your personality is named a particular color, and someone tells you that instead of green, you must become pink, how exactly do you do that? That makes no more sense than telling a puppy to be an adult dog.
All colors are beautiful. They are what they are. Loving isn't a question of painting a different color on you. If you are lavender, and someone paints purple on you, you look purple, but you are still, underneath it all, lavender.
There has been enough effort and pretense in the world. You have spent plenty of time talking yourself into being something other than you are. Growth is a natural thing and must be allowed. It cannot be forced. As a child, you didn't have to make yourself grow taller. You didn't have to make your second teeth come in. Growth is a given. Let it be a given that you will reach the state where you are innocently all-loving. You won't even know it's happened. It is happening right now whether you know it or not.
The world has models of the love you want to truly come from. The Great Spiritual Ones did not assume characteristics. There was no reason to. They were simply who they were when they were. They had no sense of attainment. There was no effort. They didn't evaluate themselves. They didn't even desire to be all-loving. They were all-loving. Their desire was to serve Me. That's where their attention went. They weren't trying to be something. They were something. They gave because it was the natural thing for them to give. Love in its purest form is what they had to give, and they gave it.
They did not adopt a style of loving anymore than they adopted a style of walking.
They did not cultivate an image of themselves. They did not have a list of attributes that they would follow. They followed Me. They never strived to find themselves. They found themselves in Me. There really wasn't that much thought about themselves and their abilities at all. They did not keep looking in the mirror.
You are already growing into pure love. You are shining more light every day. I understand that you don't see it. It is imperceptible to you. Know that you can only grow, beloveds. You are on Earth in order to grow. And so you are growing, and you are growing high.