I issued a prompt in Promptly Written a few weeks back https://medium.com/promptly-written/spiritual-prompt-for-the-week-of-february-13th-to-19th-97634c95139b to react to this quote from one of Neale Donald Walsh's conversations with God: “The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you, in effect, acknowledge that it is there…in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate.”

Regarding God's unconditional love and other matters you touched on here, such as religion, you may enjoy or find interesting my: https://medium.com/illumination/god-loves-us-unconditionally-45c54c297e52