Where does an unchanging love reside?

If a bird is looking for a tree to make a nest for its babies, what kind of tree would it look for? A flimsy, unstable tree would not be suitable. It would need to be a solid and reliable tree to hold something as precious as babies. Even if a bird did choose a unreliable tree for its nest, the nest would probably fall off in a short time when a strong wind blows.

It is the same with an unchanging love. To possess something as precious as an unchanging love, a person needs to possess an unchanging and absolute character that allows them to live by moral principles in any situation. From that kind of character unchanging love can be given to others. And that is also the kind of person that can receive unchanging love, not because of favoritism by the giver, but rather because there is a basis on which to understand and appreciate an absolute and unchanging quality.

near Kodiak, Alaska - December 2009