oh, how i needed to see this today:
"To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeon-hole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love."
- French priest
the question is: are we up for the challenge? can we love in even the worst of times when everyone and everything tells us not to?
(thank you Christie for putting this up on your blog ages ago!)