The priceless gift my best friend bequeathed me

But your acts of unconditional loving Ken, have happened in real life.

The second example, for your life of unconditional loving, has taken place in relation to me over many years, starting early in our relationship.

We both were doing Arts Degrees at the University of NWS in our youths.

In breaks between study sessions, we went outside the Library and we regularly discussed religion.

You had deep faith in God but I was like a card-carrying atheist.

I took every opportunity to rubbish and try to destroy your religious convictions, your most fundamental beliefs.

Yet you remained calm as you listened to my attacks.

Not once did you get angry or raised your voice, no matter how vehemently I tried to provoke you.

You just kept up looking at me smiling, with eyes filled with tears of joy, gratitude and child-like excitement, every time you talked about your love for Christ.

And you never tried to convert me.

Except that your love was converting me to loving your loving kindness.

I still feel the laser rays of your love irradiating me.