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It’s so easy to hate not being loved,
but difficult to love being hated.
What a strange relationship indeed,
when love and hate are paralleled.
Love, unlike hate, is eternal
and can never be transformed;
for love is and can only be its self.
Hate, on the other hand, can boast
many deceitful manifestations of its self;
demanding and expressing evil
in various deceptive ways—hatefully
seeking to destroy all that is good.
Manifested only in one, the goodness
of love is of God and is impervious to
the will and destructiveness of hate; for
love surpasses all things, not of its making.
It may be said that up is the opposite
of down; that day is the opposite of night
and that white is the opposite of black,
but hate can never be the opposite of love.
In due season, the injustice of hate
will fade into the love of justice
and the hate of inequality shall melt
and flow into the love of equity.
Such is the redeeming power of love
that makes hate powerless: indeed,
where love is, hate can never abide.
It will always be impossible for you
to love God, whom you have not seen
and hate any of his precious beings:
Don’t you just hate it that humankind has
yet to master living onederfully with love?
