From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste in images
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2013
My long time friend Miriam Lulu Chemmoss recently posted to me one of her latest inspiring videos on unconditional love that I find it worth to share with you as well. Click here to watch the video now.
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The video is based on the story about her favorite poet who once said that love cannot be described it must be tasted.
We can be certain that we are receiving unconditional love when we make
foolish mistakes or disappoint others and still feel loved. That is why we crave for it, think about it, hope for it, and go to great lengths to have it unconditionally.
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Unconditional love is the most difficult one to embrace. Many marriages today are ending in separation or divorce because they are not based on unconditional love, despite the fact that when the couple got married, they had the most meaningful ceremony, a festive reception and the sweetest and longest of honeymoons.
Most of such relationships which are not based on unconditional love are rooted on emotional feelings. It begins when one partner has an extremely close relationship with a person of the opposite sex that transforms from regular friendship to sexual affairs.
It is a condition where the partner begins having feelings of attraction for the other person. Generally they begin talking intimately about things they should only be discussing with their significant other. Eventually this may turn to what we can now call marriage.
The problem with such type of relationship is that it can badly hurt when one partner replaces time, feelings, and intimacy with someone other than their partner it hurts the relationship between them and their partner.
It hurts because such affairs involve all the lying and mistrust that physical affairs do, and their damage often takes much longer to overcome, especially for a woman who discovers that her man is cheating on her.
Such affairs can also break the family when emotional affairs start between co-workers where what may start out innocently enough as time working on a project may evolve into a deeper emotional relationship with a wife or a husband of someone.
Generally emotional affairs involve emails that your partner doesn’t want you to see, or they may take a phone call in another room and shut the door without telling you what it was about. If your partner begins to pull away from you and seems distant, they may be engaging emotionally with someone else.
Several women have complained that they have come across strange messages in their husband’s mobile phone. Some women have even complained that the latest their husbands got home was 10 pm, and they sometimes would even call to say he was still in the office.
When the husband comes home late and the wife insists on having sex, he would put her off saying he is tired because of the accumulated work in the office. The wife becomes suspicious when it comes routine.
What makes it even more painful to women is when she recalls how close and emotional they were before they got married. They shared a sense of humour that made them laugh and have fun together. They stood by each other.
Some cheating partners go as far as to buy a second cell phone to use solely for conducting the affair. Women begin to become suspicious when the second cell phone is kept at work.
By contrast, unconditional love is frequently used to describe love between family members, comrades in arms and between others in highly committed relationships. An example of this is a parent’s love for their child.
In psychology, unconditional love refers to a state of mind in which one has the goal of increasing the welfare of another, despite any evidence of benefit for oneself.
Conditional love requires some kind of finite exchange, whereas unconditional love is seen as infinite and measureless. Unconditional love separates the individual from her or his behaviours that are unacceptable in a particular situation.
In Christianity, the term “unconditional love” may be used to indicate God’s love for a person irrespective of that person’s love for God. It involves generosity, alms, sacrifice and charity.
This is the ancient morality of the gift, which has become a principle of justice. The gods and the spirits accept that the share of wealth and happiness that has been offered to them and had been hitherto destroyed in useless sacrifices should serve the poor and children.
Jainism prescribes a path of non-violence to progress the soul to this ultimate goal. Jains believe that to attain enlightenment and ultimately liberation, one must practice the following ethical principles (major vows) in thought, speech and action. The degree to which these principles are practiced is different for householders and monks. They are: Non-violence (Ahimsa), Truthfulness (Satya), Non-stealing (Asteya), Celibacy (Brahmacharya).
This was also the central teachings of Jesus found in the Gospel, especially in the Sermon on the Mount. He talks of love of our neighbour more than our ourselves. 1 John 4 states that for one to love God one must love his fellowman, and that hatred of one’s fellowman is the same as hatred of God.
German philosopher Max Scheler distinguishes two ways in which the strong can help the weak. One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, “motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one’s own life and existence”.
The central faith in Sikhism is that the greatest deed any one can do is to imbibe and live the godly qualities like love, affection, sacrifice, patience, harmony, truthfulness. This is based on the teaching to the fifth Nanak, Guru Arjun Dev who sacrificed his life to uphold 22 Carats of pure truth, the greatest gift to humanity, the Guru Granth.
And in the Ninth Nanak, Guru Tegh Bahadur Sacrificed is his head to protect weak and defenseless people against atrocity.
Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
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