When I was little my parents gave me a box of crayons and a coloring book. I thought my crayons were wonderful, all 16 of them. Then my friend got a box of crayons from her parents. It was huge and had 64 crayons in a wide variety of colors. When I looked at my puny box of crayons, I wondered if my friend's parents loved her more than my parents loved me.
After a while I realized something important about those crayons. My friend was a talented artist, so it was important for her to have lots of colors to choose from. On the other hand, I was never a big fan of coloring. I did it once in a while and enjoyed it. But I never worried about getting the colors exactly right. The 16 crayons were plenty to choose from. My parents had given me just what I needed. That's what love does.
I learned some other lessons about love as I was growing up. My Sunday School teachers taught me that God is Love and that God is infinite. Because of that, Love must be infinite. At first I thought infinite meant that something was really, really big or that there was a whole lot of it. But later I learned to think of infinite as meaning something else: Without limits. Infinite means that there is not a little or a lot, not more or less. Something that is infinite is always everywhere and always as much as you need. Because Love is infinite, everyone is always loved as fully and completely as they need to be.
