i realized today…

Love isn’t an option. It isn’t a switch I can flip on and off whenever I feel like it. It isn’t convenient. It isn’t limited to the people I feel most obligated to show love to. It isn’t limited to the “least of these” either. It’s the frat boy at the football game, the girl behind the fast food window, the guy who made your best friend cry, the kid who makes an art out of getting on your nerves, the girl down the street passing by going for a run.

How I respond to EVERYONE is important. God never made my mistakes into a funny story. He doesn’t laugh when I mess up. He’s never been angry with me without reason. I don’t annoy him. I’m not his project. He doesn’t look over me so he can get to someone more important to him. He doesn’t dislike me or ignore me or manipulate me.

But I do that. Casually, intentionally, subconsciously, however I do it, it happens. But what God DOES do is forgive me. Even for those things. I’m so glad.