I Love You Just The Way You Are by Billy Joel
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
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