Love, Never Hate

Last night we watched a program about love and forgiveness.  This morning I was reminded if either of those are conditional, they cease to be love and forgiveness.  One cannot love everyone, but or forgive everyone, but!   There are political figures and other celebrities that I didn’t feel I loved and have been very critical of them.  As I think about Jesus on the cross and it has been told he even forgave then; shouldn’t I do the same?  “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.”  That is certainly not saying we should not pray about the world but genuinely know and understand there is a higher power than what we are seeing and there is no stronger power than Love.

While reading about a young man who left a “hate group” when he actually met some of the people he was supposed to hate and realized he didn’t hate them, I began my internal examination of my heart to see where I needed to love more.  Philippians 4:8 reads “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable –if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about  such things.”  That is exactly what I want to do today, with the help of God.