Unconditional love. Many of us don't really know the real definition of unconditional love. I can include myself in the many because I constantly find myself wondering how unconditional the love I have for people really is. God love us, as imperfect as we are, unconditionally. He takes us with all the negative, all the bad attitudes, all the lying, all the cheating; and he still loves us. I think most people genuinly have unconditional love for thier family and their children. If your mom, son, father, brother or sister were to do something terrible to you, most folks take it in (not that you aren't hurt or pissed about it) and over time we forgive our family. But there are those special people in our lives: our wives, husbands, step children and just people in general that we CHOSE to have in our lives. The choice is made to get married, to have close friends, and even to bring someone else's children into our home. You would think that since we chose these people to be in our lives that we would be able to really love them for all the good and all the bad that comes along with them but somehow that choice that we make to bring them in, also makes it so much easier to kick them out. We say to ourselves "Oh no, I will not put up with this or that" and "I'm not dealing with that!" but on the other hand we once loved that person enough to do anything for them. Ricky and I just recently had a talk about cheating. When we were first married, cheating would have been that thing that made both of us say "Enough, I can't do this anymore" but after some years of marriage neither of us have that same answer. I know my answer has changed because I am working towards loving my husband more unconditionally the way I know I love my mother, daughter, and brothers. It's not enough to say you love someone but you need to really know what love is. My big picture of what really encompasses unconditional love is starting to come into focus. Can you see the big picture?