Magic Cookie Love

A friend of mine posed a question for discussion the other day. It was if a man gives his spouse HIV should she leave him. One person said yes, and another said no. Anyway, it caused me to think about the limits of loves or the limitlessness of love. It seems that people usually have conditions on their willingness to love each other especially boyfriends, girlfriends, or spouses. I knew of a lady who was infected with HIV from her spouse. She stayed with him. Was it because of love or some other reason? Cookie Johnson stayed with Magic Johnson. Why? Money? She could have taken half and left by now. Is this a love that many never experience or is there some other motive? I guess you can't know unless you are "Cookie." I recently heard a preacher say that he loves his sons and that his love is independent of anything his adopted sons do. They can't earn his love. They can't forfeit his love. He used this as an analogy for the way God loves us. We can't earn it, and we can't make Him stop loving us. It's a gift, but we can refuse to accept the gift. Some day I'd like to accept some magic cookie love of my own.