unlovely?

good evening!
i'm sure many of you have the same trouble as me. sometimes there's just those people that are hard to love. they are annoying. they do things to hurt you. they gossip. they have weird habits. they get too close to your face. we have issues trying to love them, because they are just so, unlovely.
we spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that we should be loving them, but at the same time not loving them because it will damage our reputation or we know we will just get hurt by them. god tells us to love them, but we don't. why? because ultimately we see them as having the issue. its not me, it's her. it's not me, it's his attitude or her bad breath. ouch.
and it's true. they are unlovely. but not in the way we think of them as being unlovely. guess what? it's not them, it's us. by us not loving them as the person god made them, we are not loving god. the bible even tells us that if we are not loving everyone around us, we are not loving god. that hurts. by us not loving others, we are being unlovely. that's not what we want to hear.
whether we like it or not, we are someone else's unlovely person. someone else finds you hard to love because of the way you talk or the spinach in your teeth or your weird morals. this is why we are called to love everyone around us. why? not because we want to, but because we love god and we love his creation. we love because he first loved us.
so next time you see that person that you find tricky to love, think about the fact that it could be you that has the problem. not everybody feels the same way about that person as you do, so cut them some slack and love them as god's creation.
good luck :D

god bless,
oliveanddaisy xx