Fr. Ron Rolheiser writes that God lets his sun shine on the bad as well as the good. God’s love doesn’t discriminate; it simply embraces everything. God loves us when we are good, and God loves us when we are bad. God loves the saints in heaven and the devils in hell equally. They just respond differently. Why be good if God loves us equally when we are bad and good? That is an interesting question, though not a deep one. Love, understood properly, is never a reward for being good. Instead, goodness is always a consequence of having been loved. We aren’t loved because we are good, but hopefully, we become good because we experience love. That is the power of unconditional love.