Unconditional Love

Today I learned what it means to love unconditionally. From child sponsorship to working in the orphanage, I saw so many different ways that people can love. To love unconditionally means to be all in and love someone or something despite the condition. In Haiti we see people who are starving yet still willing to love us and love our God. This is what I mean by unconditional love.

     For most of the day I worked in child sponsorship. My job was to measure the foot size of all the kids who were either sponsored or unsponsored. To my surprise, the orphans also came in today to get sized. The most eye opening experience I had through this was seeing a little boy that had to be no more than two with what looked like an older brother that couldn’t be more than seven. I don’t know that circumstance that the family was in or whether he even had one, but I do know that when the older brother stood in line with the younger one and helped him take his shoe off and stop him from crying I had just witnessed what unconditional love was.

     I also saw what unconditional love was through my own experience. After being completely exhausted and wanting to just sleep the rest of my life, I powered through and went to the orphanage by myself because I have so much love for the children down there. Knowing that humans can produce that much love proves that there is in fact a God. Without love, there can be no faith, and without faith, there can be no love. God gave everyone emotions for a reason. He wants us to be able to love someone with every ounce of our being and to be able to do that, we have to have faith.