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b'\\u201cWhat do I love when I love my God?\\u201d\\n\\xa0\\nThis is a famous question asked in St. Augustine\\u2019s \\u201cConfessions\\u201d that many people through the centuries have pondered and wrestled with. \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nI too have wrestled with that question. And I can tell you it wasn\\u2019t just a theoretical or casual philosophical conversation for me. For me, it felt like the slow breaking of a tree branch I was perched upon over a cliff.\\xa0 It was terrifying and painful and often lonely.\\xa0 But one thing that I think sometimes gets missed in conversations around \\u201cdeconstruction\\u201d is that there is often a deep love that is underneath and even fueling the questioning. I didn\\u2019t question God because it was a cool or progressive thing to do\\u2026 I didn\\u2019t question the Bible because I was trying to be relevant culturally. I questioned God BECAUSE I loved God. I questioned the Bible because it was so important to me. \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nThis tension between loving something and not being able to understand it has shown up not just in my spiritual journey, but my personal life as well. In the last several years, some of my most important relationships have either been lost or redefined in some very scary and painful ways. But honestly, I still have such deep love for every one of those people. So what do you do in those scenarios? What do you do when your structures/expectations/understanding of reality falls apart even while you still are in love? What do you do when you love God even if you don\\u2019t know how to believe in God? What do you do when you love someone but don\\u2019t know how to define your relationship or understand them? This new single, \\u201cI Still Love You\\u201d that dropped today is an exploration of that tension. Sometimes, you just gotta let things be what they are. And maybe that\\u2019s actually the heart of what true, unconditional love is.'