the virtue of love.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -G.K. Chesterton

LOVE. would it be easy for you to say I LOVE YOU to someone? it is easy to love someone when things are going smooth. it is easy to love someone if he or she is lovable, kind, nice, wonderful to us. it is easy to love someone in a good condition. 

BUT...

Our REAL LOVE is tested when we face the unlovable. when we're in a condition when everything seems like a mess. when someone is being annoying, irritating, completely a pain in the ass. 

BECAUSE...

the fact is, it is never easy to love someone who's so unlovable. someone who's different from us. someone who has a different point of view from us. someone who has hurt us. someone who is completely an annoying jerk. someone whom we cannot understand.

THUS...

when we survive the hardships, we then know that our LOVE is REAL and the hardships mark our LOVE with A VIRTUE. we have gone through it and still our LOVE prevails.

³² “If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them! ³³ And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much! ³⁴ And if you lend money only to those who can repay you, why should you get credit? Even sinners will lend to other sinners for a full return.

 ³⁵ “Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked. ³⁶ You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate. (LUKE 6:32-36)