Thursday, January 11, 2007

While I was sitting in psychology class today, I had a new thought.
I have a hard time loving people (which, unfortunately, is not the weird thought). But it's more than that.
I have noticed that when I'm struggling to love someone, struggling to be kind to them for whatever reason, I imagine them praying. (Idealistic tendencies...). That's strange, I know. People act certain ways, but in the real presence of God I think everyone would be humbled to the point of kneeling in admiration, no matter who they are. And so to imagine people in such a position, to see them as their potential self, has helped me treat them better.
But there's something very wrong in that.
God loves me just as I am. He does want me to grow and change and mature, but He loves me unconditionally, all the time. And I am called to love my neighbor in the same way that He loves. I must learn to love others exactly as they are, not as who they could be...and for no other reason than Christ's beautiful, irrational love for me.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

I'm not alone :)

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life_article.php?id=7308