As a child you learn how to receive love. Unconditional love from your parents.
As an adult you learn how to give love. Give conditional love to the one who loves you back.
As a parent you learn how to give love that is free and innate. Unconditional love for your child.
Someone once asked me, how I knew we were ready to have kids. I don’t think there is a perfect answer for that. But the above pathway is how I responded. I think if you can look back and see those first two points of love in your life, it’s a good start to find the third one.
Everyone should have a chance to experience those points of love in their life. But the world isn’t perfect, life doesn’t always go the way we want it. But finding those places where we need healing and redemption is a somewhere we can begin to look.