Examples of healing
The peace-bearing touch of unconditional love
Weybridge, England
I had been in bed all day with a splitting headache, and I ached all over. My husband was working away from home during the weekdays. There was no extended family around me and nobody I could ask for help. Lonely and sick, I felt a million miles away from God. Did He love me? I asked, “What is love and where do I find it?” Finally, I asked God to help me just feel the closeness of His love.
Although I could hardly bear to get out of bed and leave home that afternoon, I had to go pick up our daughters from school. Halfway there I came across a roadblock—my route to the school was closed. The traffic was being diverted, causing a long queue of cars, and I couldn’t figure out how to get to the children’s school. Honestly, I didn’t care about what the road construction workers were trying to do; all I wanted was to pick up my children and get back home to bed. So in my desperation I just drove right across the closed area.
There were machines, diggers, trucks, and contractors all over the closed-off road. A man came toward me and asked what I was doing. With tears pouring down my face, I told him where I needed to go and asked him to please help me. I told him I didn’t feel well, but I had to pick up my children from school.
At that moment, I looked into his eyes and saw that they were filled with love—love from God. He told me to wait where I was. Then he moved the tractors, trucks, and digger all out of the way, leaving a path for me to get through. I couldn’t thank him enough. The tears I drove away with were now tears of relief and gratitude.
It wasn’t until I was walking to the school gates that I realized I didn’t have a single pain in my body. All I could feel was God’s peace and love all around me. I knew that feeling came from God.
I have never forgotten that love I was given. It brought a healing peace to my turbulent state of mind, and to my aching body. So many times in my life people have given me love without any question or condition. Their generous love has often enabled me to escape from dark places of confusion and sadness, as it did when that kind man at the closed road treated me with such instant kindness.
Love is there for us to give every day. It’s free from God. It’s the impulse that has caused all the progress the world has ever made. Love that brings peace in the world is a journey, not an end. It embraces all people, all animals, all plants, all things. Unconditional love cannot separate us from one another by gender, race, status, or religion.
Love has caused other people’s helping hands to bring me to a place in my life where it is now my turn to help. I want to do what that man at the closed road did for me—reach out and heal someone without any questions asked or strings attached.
When my love is deep enough and unconditional enough, I believe I will see a world full of people who live in peace with one another. The strengthening of my love will begin in my heart with the desire to be a good Samaritan to others on their journey.
Unconditional love holds the power to heal and open new roads for peace. Love will be my instrument of peace for the coming year. I pledge to wage peace by using the most powerful weapon of all—divinely derived love, pure, clear, and unconditional, which comes from God, who is Love itself.