I am unconditional Love and compassion. It doesn’t mean I didn’t suffer when my child was suffering. There is a side of us that wants to protect our children, and that is perfectly natural. But we have to learn how to balance our motherly instinct with our children’s free will, and keep in mind that they have incarnated to fulfill their purpose on this Earth.

Unconditional love means we recognize that our children do not belong to us. We guide them, we walk by their side, but ultimately we need to be strong enough to let them live the life they are meant to live, mistakes and detours included.

This is very important. When children are overprotected, they are missing their first opportunities to learn lessons. However, since all of us are here to learn lessons for the expansion of our souls, there will be a moment when you cannot protect your child anymore from those lessons, and chances are the challenges they will have to face will be greater than the ones that were missed in their earlier days.

Sometimes unconditional love is seen as very mild, very meek, like an angelic presence that sees everything with a smile. This is far from the entire truth. Unconditional love requires more strength than anything else. Your heart and your faith need to be unshakable for you to accept seeing your child walk a path that you wouldn’t have chosen for them. Remember that God knows best, and that, for your child as for all of us, life happens through us and for us, not to us, no matter how it may look to our imperfect minds.

Take a deep breath, love your child, and love their freedom even more, like I have done for my child, and am doing now for all of you.