Try loving someone who hates you.  Peace is at the beginning of your journey not the end.  You tell me that you cannot forgive and you want me to second a motion to see you included in the club of social occupancy.  I will never meet the cut off, never match the guidelines, never have the personal enlightenment or empowerment to somehow rise above.  For this battle was never fought by me, but by God out of love for me and you.  It does not depend upon my strength or frailty, my coordination or clumsiness, my success or utter defeat.  There is no balance of competing forces seeking influence over eternity.  There is only God and His patience for mankind until He levies absolute judgment.

Love is something I learned from Him, where the world had only given a quest for attention.  Overcoming is found in realization of truth not in repeated or mighty action.  I have won is a state of being not an episode of circumstance, effort and chance.  Romance is fine but give me a woman that will stay with me after the glamorous and spectacle is ended and you will see the foundation for real love.  I see them vomit, convulse, jones, steal, beg, lie and borrow until no one will know them and yet I see God still waiting on their every tear.  I find them gasping, hiding, creeping, avoiding, competing, faking and controlling, telling themselves that one more achievement and things are going to be alright.  But night still comes and daydreams turn to threatening nightmare as they find themselves in darkness without hope, wisdom and freedom.  I greet mockers, knowing that their fear is insurmountable, for they argue with a Holy God, whose voice is thunder and Words raise or lower the dead.

I will not talk trash.  It matters to Him who I am.  You are loved, whether you accept, understand or deserve it is simply and fortunately irrelevant.  For if eternity depended upon my performance, looks, money or skill, oh what a desperate man I would become.  I wait upon His direction because He loved me enough to wait until I broke down and cried out for help, He was simply there, just as promised.  His loyalty doesn’t miss, it follows the line of infinite slope and never wavers in the realms of fickle human dependency.  When I met Jesus I too had the opportunity to surrender and now I see in myself the benefits of His undying love.  People can now count upon me when before they had no reason.  I have been reborn, remade, chastened and set free.  Jesus is for me and I for Him.  In this life leading to the next.  Praise His name He is Glory.