We all have them.
People who we simply cannot understand. People who get on our everlasting nerves. People whose words aren’t taken seriously and people we don’t respect.
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from this year, it’s that everyone has unfavorable qualities. Qualities that don’t work in his or her favor.
This fact of life drives some to cold-hearted disinterest, harsh judgement, and fatal destruction of relationships.
Instead of accepting the person as a whole for who he or she is, we humans tend to pick out the worst in people and choose our relationships based on the illusion that is the outward appearance.
We treat people based on their level of perfection.
When someone is well-liked and friendly, we are inclined to earn his or her respect.
When someone is known for being a loner, we are inclined to skirt away.
But the thing is, no one will ever satisfy these invisible standards we place on our relationships.
If we loved based on perfection, the only person we would truly be able to love is God.
And that begs the question what if God loved based on perfection, too?
We’d all be in hell, that’s what.
So if God holds the capacity to love sinners such as ourselves, and if we are His children, couldn’t we hold a little bit of that capacity also?
Loving other humans is the hardest thing we will ever do in this life.
You could have the best possible reasons in the universe for despising someone else. You could hold every grudge imaginable for every reason under the sun. But guess what?
You aren’t going to feel any better.
Believe me, I know.
There are days when I just want to walk away from the people who hurt me and I do–when I’m ready. But some people are worth walking away from, and some people aren’t. Some people need to be loved more than others.
But everyone needs to be loved.
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