Conditional love

Another sparkling day out there.

In the Psalm for Sunday the writer thanks God because of God’s kindness to him (probably ‘him’). And lots of people can indeed count their blessings. My love for God and probably yours is like the Psalmist’s, because it also seems conditional much of the time. Can we still love God when times are hard? That takes a certain kind of heroism. But I seem to remember that we’re taught the importance of unconditional love in human relating.

Loving God is not just about being thankful. It’s also about doing right, which is kindness and fairness for other people too (says he from his armchair).