God and Love

We sing songs about God's love in church but are we really getting it?
Yes we understand that God has a love for the people in starving
countries and a love for people who are victims of natural disasters,
at least we do for a little while. We even understand that God has a
love for the people that we love to love. But I pray that when we
hear about God's love, when we sing about God's love, when we remember
God's love that we will remember also that God has love not only for us
but for the people around us that we don't like, the people that we
love to hate. When we hear about God's love may we remember that God's
love extends to the people that are annoying, to the people who are
awkward, to the people who can't seem to find a bar of soap to save
their life. God loves the unlovable...and if we believe in God and in
his love then we should also love the unlovable.