Lately there is much talk, on all sides, with wording that is equivalent to this: "God is on our side." Or, "With God on our side, we will wage righteous war on them."
At the moment, our planet seems to be moving into a lot of "us" versus "them" thinking. But which side is God really on?
In my limited understanding, God is on no side at all. The ungraspable doesn't take sides. Or to put the same thing in a different way, God is always on all sides, because all "sides" are always Itself.
In my limited understanding, the Infinite has no opinions or judgments about anything, because the Infinite is not a personality. It is not some sort of person who is deciding what is right and wrong, what is light and dark, etc. How can It be against Itself? To use another metaphor, the ungraspable is in favor of everything that exists, because otherwise it wouldn't be here, since everything is only itself.
That's why divine love is a little different from human love. In human love, we love this person but not that person, we love this situation but not that one, we love the "light" but not the "dark," the "right" (according to us) but not the "wrong" (according to us).
But the Eternal loves all things equally, because all things are Itself, or perhaps more accurately, because it's very substance is love. And nothing is left out, because nothing whatsoever is separate from Itself. Indeed, nothing else exists but Source, the One. There is no separateness anywhere, just as there is no wave separate from water.
As Jesus said, God makes its sun to shine upon the "good" and the "bad," and Its healing rain falls upon the "just" and the "unjust" alike.
In my limited understanding, the Infinite has no sex, either, because it is simultaneously all opposites, and is never more this than that. Or to say the same thing in a different way, it is all sexes simultaneously, since it is all things simultaneously.
Divine love does not love the trees more than the grass, or one human being or group more than another, or one cause more than another.
Just as a mother loves her child even if that child does terrible deeds, divine love is unconditional. And it is unaddressed. It is not addressed to some particular person or persons more than others. It is addressed everywhere; nothing and nobody is exempt. It is enough to know that something exists to know that it is loved.
More, it is enough to know that something exists to know that it is love. All energy is love, though it may come in disguise. All energy is ultimately friendly, for if we can be still enough to hear, it carries a message from the beyond.
—jim sloman, for 10/20/01
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