Unconditional Love

I love you as you are,
as you seek to find your own special way
to relate to the world.
I honor your choices to learn
And the way you feel is right for you.
I know it is important
that you are the person you want to be
and not someone that I or others think you "should" be.
I realize that I cannot
know what is best for you,
although perhaps sometimes I think I do.

I have not been where you have been,
viewing life from the angle you have.
I do not know what you have chosen to learn,
how you have chosen to learn it,
with whom or in what time period.
I have not walked life looking
through your eyes,
so how can I know what you need.

I allow you to be in the world
without a thought or word of judgment from me
about the deeds you undertake.
I see no error in the things you say and do.
In this place where I am
I see that there are many ways
to perceive and experience the different facets of our world.
I allow without reservation
the choices you make in each moment.
I make no judgment of this
for if I would deny your right to your evolution,
then I would deny that right for
myself and all others.

To those who would choose a way I cannot walk,
while I may not choose to
add my power and my energy to this way,
I will never deny you the gift of love
that God has bestowed within me for all creation.
As I love you so I shall be loved.
As I sow, so shall I reap.

I know that the many races,
religions, customs, nationalities and beliefs
within our world bring us great richness
and allow us the benefit and
teachings of such diverseness.
I know we each learn in our own unique way
in order to bring that love
and wisdom back to the whole.
I know that if there was only one way to do something,
there would need only be one person.

I will not only love you
if you behave in a way I think you should
or believe in those things I believe in.
I understand you are truly my
brother or my sister,
though you may have been born
in a different place and believe
in another God than I.
The love I feel is for all of God's world.
I know that every living thing
is a part of God and I feel a love deep within
for every person, animal, tree and flower,
every bird, river and ocean
and for all the creatures in all the world.

I allow you the universal right of free will
to walk your own path, creating
steps or to sit awhile if
that is what is right for you.
I will make no judgment that
these steps are large or small,
nor light or heavy
or that they lead up or down
for this is just my viewpoint.
I may see you do nothing
and judge it to be unworthy
and yet it may be that you bring great
healing as you stand blessed
by the light of God.
I cannot always see the
higher picture of divine order.

For it is the inalienable right of all life
to choose their own evolution
and with great love
I acknowledge your right
to determine your future.
In humility I bow to the realization
that the way I see as best for me
does not have to mean it is also right for you.
I know that you are led as I am,
following the inner excitement
to know your own path.

I live my life in loving service,
being the best me I can,
becoming wiser in
the perfection of Divine Truth,
becoming happier in the
Joy of Unconditional Love.

by
Sandy Stevenson
England




If you judge people
You don't have time
To love them

Mother Teresa

Saw Spamalot in March 2008

With a Broadway Star, Tom Deckman (Spamalot)

NYC 2005


San Diego 2007, with a Claymate from Japan.

Pala, Cal. 2007 with Quiana

CD Party in Seattle

Trip to Japan to see my family. 10/18-10/30/07
My mother is 90 and she was still an amazing woman.

My grandkids(twins) tried on some Japanese traditional Kimono when we were there.

The twins 2008