St. James' Church Bushypark Galway

A tough message – to love people we find difficult, people who drive us mad, or worse still, people who have wronged us for whatever reason. And often the only motive is the motive Jesus gives – love others with the love of God.

God looks into the depths of everyone’s personality and sees there what he has made. Like an artist looks on a picture or a photographer on a photo, and see you there both what you did, and what you tried to do.

Like a parent looks on a child and sees in the child the gift of their life, and the love that goes beyond anything done, said, or not done, not said by the child. God looks on each of us and sees in us his creation and what he sees and loves in Jesus, he sees and loves in us.

And his eyes shine with compassion seeing beyond everything to the spark of life and light that shines in us all. Can we see with the eyes of God, noticing and loving in everyone the child of God?