Unconditional Love is Always Asking Us To Let Go

This piece came through me in a way that shook something loose inside.
I recorded it with emotion, but I know some may feel it even more deeply through the written word.
So I’ve included the full text below.

If it touches you, let it.
And if you feel called to share it, thank you for helping me ripple this truth outward.
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I’ve noticed something about people who love deeply:
They often hold on tightly.

But the more I live, the more I realize…

Unconditional love is always asking us to let go.

I recently saw a post by Zach Bush, MD, where he wrote that grief is always present in unconditional love that to love fully is to be asked, again and again, to feel the pain of letting go.

That truth spoke to me.

Because the unconditional love I feel for life today didn’t arrive as a gift.
It came through grief.

Not just the grief of losing someone I loved, or of watching a relationship end, but the grief of losing everything I once thought defined me.
My beliefs.
My stories.
My ambitions.
The identity I had spent a lifetime building… even the illusion of control.

And when it was all gone, there was nothing left but surrender.
Nothing left but letting go.

And in that surrender, something sacred happened.

I didn’t fall into despair.
I fell into love.

Because when there was nothing left to hold on to, I could finally trust that God had my back.
That the Infinite Creator was still holding me.

Because I was still here.

Loss didn’t erase me.
Cancer didn’t erase me.
The unraveling of everything I thought made me “me” didn’t erase me.

I was still here.

And in that moment, I understood:

It was never about what I lost.
It was about what those losses were teaching me.

That everything has a purpose.
That life happens for me, not to me.
That life is an endless adventure of becoming more
More in tune with what is.
More open to life flowing through me.

And in that opening, a vast, all-encompassing love for life itself was born.

Not a love that clings.
Not a love that tries to hold on tighter.
But a love that stays open, even when it hurts.

Because true love, unconditional love, is not about holding on.
It’s about letting go.

And yes, grief will always be present in unconditional love.
Because life will always keep asking us to release.

Someone once said that to live this way is to keep your heart so open, so raw and vulnerable,
that even the brush of a butterfly’s wing can bring exquisite pain.

So open…
So willing to be touched that deeply…
that you begin to see beauty in everything.

Nothing to judge.
Nothing to resist.
Just the endless, breathtaking adventure of life unfolding before you, and through you.

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