round and round and round

Tuesday April 8^th, 1 Peter 1: 21 And when he did come, it was to lead you to have faith in God, who raised him from death and honored him in a glorious way. That's why you have put your faith and hope in God. 22 You obeyed the truth, and your souls were made pure. Now you sincerely love each other. But you must keep on loving with all your heart. 23 Do this because God has given you new birth by his message that lives on forever.  God has given you new birth, new life, and what you are to do with that new life is to love one another.  This is not an easy task; many of those who need to be loved the most seem to be the least lovable.  They have put up their walls of protection after being beat down time and time again, the same way we would, and often do.  In the process of loving the seemingly unlovable we often find that walls can and do come down.  The ones that come down however are usually our walls.  In loving others, what we discover most is our self, and the fact that God even loves us.  There are times when perhaps the other discovers the same thing, and their walls come down also.  And so it goes round and round and round.  Christ empted himself in the world and our joyous journey is the discovery of that at every turn in our lives and in the lives of others.  Especially the turns we never intended to take.