It is easier to love God in the abstract than to love some of the people God created.
God does not interrupt me, misunderstand what I said, or bring the same unresolved pattern into another family gathering.
People do.
This lesson does not ask me to feel affection for every personality or remain close to everyone. It asks whether I can claim love for the Creator while condemning His creation as permanently unworthy of love.
I remember sitting across from someone whose opinion had disappointed me. I was polite, but internally I had reduced them to that one position. Everything they said afterward passed through the label I had given them.
Loving God’s Son did not require agreeing.
It meant becoming willing to see a whole person where judgment preferred a representative of everything I opposed.
That wider vision can include boundaries. Love does not require access, agreement, or the abandonment of truth. It refuses to make another person’s error their complete identity.
The same applies to me.
I cannot sincerely practice love for God while excluding the self I become when I am embarrassed, defensive, or wrong.
I may not be ready for warmth or reconciliation.
I can begin by admitting that my judgment does not have the authority to undo what God created.
To love the Father is to let His Love define His Son more deeply than fear defines any of us.
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A PRIVATE REFLECTION
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A QUIETER WAY TO PRACTICE
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