Online StoreThe Universal Need For Unconditional Love And Acceptance.
Or that the deep emotional holes in the lives of most men and women cry out to be filled? Or that being loved unconditionally is the deepest need of the human heart?
However we reflect on it, we acknowledge that to receive love unconditionally is very rare for the vast majority of people in the world that we live in today. Some will not even be aware they need it. And yet most will consciously or unconsciously yearn for it.
And to be accepted? Don’t all of us desire just to be accepted for the real us - “warts and all”. And yet predominantly we are categorized, valued, placed and accepted by what we have achieved, what we look like, what we do, etc. That acceptance is based on whether we ‘fit the bill’. The problem is that others decide what criteria make up ‘the bill’.
To achieve this is an impossibility but, nevertheless, if we are not careful, we can spend a lifetime trying to do just that. We struggle, strive, perform - do whatever it takes to achieve the pre-conditions that others have set for us.
The challenge can never be won. The game goes on and on. Like endlessly chasing our own tail. Coming close, but never quite getting there. Like a football game where we keep thinking we may be able to score the final goal, only to find extra play has been declared - and the goalposts have been moved anyway.
So, why bother? And is there a solution? As commented on earlier, the human condition inherently cries out for acceptance and love. Not just that - but to receive these UNCONDITIONALLY without having to strive to attain or achieve it.
Just to be given this. Our souls cry out for it. Pure, unadulterated, freely given unconditional love and acceptance - to satisfy fully the deepest needs, longings and yearnings of our human heart.
Where can we get this? Is there an answer to the deepest need of the human heart? Can another meet our heart’s deep cry? Can it happen? Or do we give up and acknowledge that this is unattainable - and cease our searchings?
Some would say that it is only in the person of Jesus (claiming to be both man and God come down to earth) that we can find true unconditional love and acceptance. Others would cry that this is absurd, heretical, wishful thinking, lies, brazen rubbish, the stuff of myths and fables, unproven, fanciful…….
What cannot be ignored, however, is that this particular question has been the source of major discussion and argument over the last two thousand years. And where do WE stand? How does it affect us? Can OUR needs be met thus? Until we seek for the answer to this question, we will never get to the truth.
