Show me how to love you, God…
Show me what that even means…
Does it mean anything? Show me…
This prayer has become my daily practice. Not because I’ve figured out the answer, but because I haven’t. And I’ve realized that’s the point.
Learning How to Love God Through Asking
Show me how to love others…
Show me how to love myself…
Show me where I’m acting outside of love…
These three lines contain more spiritual technology than most books. They’re connected. You can’t really love God without learning to love yourself. You can’t love yourself authentically without extending that love to others. And you can’t do any of it without first seeing where you’re blocking it.
The prayer isn’t asking God to do something for you. It’s asking God to reveal something to you. There’s a massive difference. One is passive. The other requires your participation.
The Deeper Questions
Show me how to turn fear into courage via love…
Show me how love can be unconditional…
Show me how to grow in love…
Fear is just love that’s gotten confused. It’s love that’s forgotten what it is. When you ask to see how fear becomes courage through love, you’re really asking to remember. To remember that fear is love wearing a disguise.
Unconditional love sounds impossible until you realize it’s actually your natural state. The conditions are what we’ve added. The attachments, the expectations, the requirements. Learning unconditional love isn’t learning something new. It’s unlearning what’s in the way.
What Love Knows
Show me love’s integrity…
Show me love’s wisdom…
Show me love, God…
I want to know it…
Love has its own intelligence. It knows things the mind doesn’t know. It sees solutions the mind can’t see. When you ask to be shown love’s wisdom, you’re asking to access a different kind of knowing. One that doesn’t come through thinking, but through being.
Love’s integrity is interesting. It suggests that love isn’t just a feeling. It’s a structure. A coherence. Something that holds together in a specific way. When you’re aligned with it, everything flows. When you’re out of alignment, you feel it immediately.
The Starting Point
If you’re asking how to love God, the answer isn’t technique. It’s willingness. Willingness to be shown. Willingness to see where you’re acting outside of love. Willingness to not know and be taught.
Most people want the answer delivered. They want a method, a practice, a set of rules. But loving God isn’t like that. It’s more like a relationship that unfolds through honest conversation. Through showing up, day after day, and saying: show me.
The prayer itself is the practice. Ask, and keep asking, until the asking becomes the answer. Until you realize that the willingness to ask is already a form of love. That seeking is already finding.
This is what the mystics knew. The search and the destination are the same thing. You don’t find God at the end of the journey. You find God in the asking. In the reaching. In the hunger that won’t go away.
This is the lens the Bible is meant to be read through.
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Godspeed.