A child asked how do we know that "God is love." We got it revealed through Jesus. It is that God has loved us so much, and continues to love us and will continue to love us. Unconditional is God's love for everyone. We find various forms and expressions of love in Jesus. He exhorted us to love unconditionally and to even love our enemies. He taught us that the highest form of love is to sacrifice our life for our loved ones. There is sacrifice in love. There is self-emptying in love. Love is sacrificing oneself for the sake of love. When the ego disappears, what remains is love. All these didn't satisfy the kids. Or, rather they did not understand it.

I said that we can also reach the conclusion that God is love in another way. There are 8 billion people in the world today. These 8 billion people are all different one from the other. Not everyone is black, white, brown, or has external beauty. Religion is not the same for everyone. Knowledge, opinion, education, character, language, body metabolism, body structure, dietary practice and culture are not the same for everyone. Even the blood groups are different. But the main factor that unites these 8 billion people in the world is that everyone has love, has the ability to love, and has the passion to experience love.

Love is basically relationship. The amount and passion of love in other animals is not a constant as in humans. Even if we argue that there is love in animals and plants, we may not be able to say that there is love in rocks, sand, water and air. But they too are in relationship. There is nothing in this universe outside of relationality with one another. Relationship is what is makes an atom. The relationship between the subatomic particles like proton, neutron, electron, positron, neutrino etc. makes an atom a specific atom. It is the same relationship that makes an atom that maintains it and changes it. This relatedness that exists within and without is the reason why we can say that God is love.

As human beings, we are all different. There is a lot of difference in our level of awareness. As we grow in the awareness that 'We are love because we are in God', we would try to become that. Every action of ours should be done lovingly. When we read, we should read with love; when we speak, we should speak with love; when we play, we should play with love; when we work, we should work with love; when we pray, we should pray with love; when we rest, we should rest with love. Thus, life should become love.