I still hang out with people like me. I give freely of my time and gifts to those who appreciate them. I don't like to love people who misbehave, who are rude, or misinformed. I'm easily annoyed with people who simply regurgitate, with passion, what they heard on a 24 hr news channel. In my prayer today, as I remember Dr. King, I'm praying that I can love the abortionist as much as I love the innocent child, that I can love the fear monger as much as I love the immigrant.
Lord, have mercy on me, a bigot. Give me the grace to see how recklessly you love all of your children, and the grace to love them as you love them.
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Dang, Ennie! Every entry challenges me. In a good way.
"I don't like to love people who misbehave, who are rude, or misinformed."
I live that sentence with a passion every single time I am behind the wheel of a car. :-/ How hard it is to love when I am so focused on myself that I take every other driver's bad move personally.
PS:
Here's a quote about love that I think you'll dig: "Genuine Christian love is forged against the anvil of our selfishness and possessiveness... It is important to remember that love is more than a feeling. It is active and transitive. The real test of my loving is not that I feel loving, but that the other person feels loved by me. Love is what I do to create this sense of feeling cared for." - Morton T. Kelsey
This was convicting. Thank you.
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