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[...] I do believe we can love someone and still not enjoy being around them a lot. Don’t forget that love is not necessarily having loving feelings, but a decision to treat people as God instructs us to treat them.

When you read about loving everyone unconditionally, you may feel there are cert…

Love is liberating. It offers people both roots and wings. It provides a sense of belonging and acceptance (roots) and a sense of freedom (wings). Love doesn’t try to control or manipulate, and it doesn’t seek its own fulfillment through trying to control the destiny of others. In a truly loving fa…

Let me encourage you to turn yourself over to God. Tell Him that you know you cannot change yourself, but that you want Him to change you and make you what He wants you to be. He will do it at a pace that is just right for you, and He will use methods that would not have occurred to you. It is God’…

We can, of course, choose not to obey in the area of forgiveness, but we pay a price for doing so. We hurt ourselves more than we hurt other people by refusing to forgive. Refusing to forgive is like taking poison and hoping our enemy will die. We may spend years being angry with someone who doesn’…

There is no hope of loving people who are hard to love—in fact, no hope of loving anyone at all—unless we are willing to forgive and let go of their offenses. No one on this earth can have a relationship and never disappoint, hurt, or offend another. If you are hoping for this type of relationship,…