Only ask me this... do you love me?

I want you to know that I do know what you need, even when I cannot give it to you.
My own limitations will impede my performance, but I know that my greatest contribution to your life will be to help you love yourself to think better and more gently of yourself.
To accept your own limitations more peacefully in the perspective of your whole person.
To give you all you need would require a wholeness in me that I do not have.
I cannot come through for you always as you need me.
But I can promise you this much, I will try.
I will try always to reflect to you your unique value and worth.
I will try to be a mirror to your beauty and goodness.
I will try to read your heart and not your lips.
I will always try to understand you rather than judge you.
I will never demand that you meet my expectations as the price of admission to my heart.
So do not ask me why I love you.
Such a question could invite only the response of conditional love.
I do not love you because you look a certain way, or do certain things, or practice certain values.
Only ask me this... do you love me?
And I can always answer yes, oh Yes!...