It has been said that love makes people vulnerable. From the human standpoint, it is true. This is, perhaps, one of the reasons why some individuals are trying to avoid love at all cost. In the past, they've been offended, hurt, abused, and mistreated as they tried to love someone, so they don't want it to happen anymore. From now on, they are resolved not to display their emotions.

My point is different. I would like to focus our attention at the possibility of higher level of expression in the world. Our human experience is significant, but it does not reveal all that we can be. The Truth is, we are divine beings, destined to walk in divine love, which transcends human love. And divine love knows no offenses, even when it is being expressed through human channels.

When I see a person who can be easily offended, whose feelings are easily hurt, I may feel compassion, but at the same time I understand that he/she yet has a long way to go in the process of spiritual development.

Divine love, working in us and expressing through us, makes us strong in all aspects of our being. It gives us emotional strength and stability not to be moved by any possible offenses, and to keep on living and doing the best we know.

Divine love removes from our minds a deep-seated idea of injustice. Richard Bach wrote that a mark of our ignorance is the depth of our belief in injustice. This is a profound statement. Belief in injustice implies that God is either absent from this world, or not loving enough, or not powerful enough. All this is not true. God is present. God is powerful. God is loving. But people so often fail to see this.

Divine love is the reason why we can demonstrate forgiveness.

Forgiveness is closely related to clear spiritual perception. "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do" (Luke 24:34), prayed Jesus at the cross. The Master realized that it was ignorance of the executors that crucified Him, and He was willing to forgive their ignorance.

The act of forgiveness of our side indicates our openness to let go of our limited and circumscribed thoughts about others, and to be mentally lifted up to God's point of view. If frees us from delusive self-importance and self-centeredness which prevents us from entering into the fullness of God's blessings.

All things can serve the higher purpose in lives of those who open themselves to God's strengthening and inspiring love. Every tear we could drop will be magically transformed into a golden nugget for our "heavenly treasure chest".

Knowing this, we may affirm: