(•) God ¹s love melts everything….

Gods love melts everything bad, mean, and despairing. Love conquers everything, love conquers death. But it must be Gods love, a kind of love that extends even to its enemies: a love that strides unperturbed like a warrior through everything and can never be insulted, hurt, despised, or thrown away, and can never be repelled; a love that strides through the world like a warrior with the helmet of hope on his head. That is the love of God, which will never concede there is anyone who is not loved. I say it boldly in the face of the whole world, in the face of heaven and the underworld: Everything is loved because Jesus is born. All should know they are loved, and not one single person should feel rejectedall are loved, because Jesus is born.

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from You Belong to God, The Day of God’s Love.