I Really Don't Like This

The Good News Today Is...just when I thought I had it all together I was challenged again. I have been working so hard to love the way that God loves and I've been doing a little better every day. Then I met someone who was so hard to love. Even as I reminded myself that this person was broken and needed compassion, I really wanted to lash out at them for the things they were doing. It has been bothering me for a few days now, because even though the situation is past, the feelings are clinging on. Every time I think about this person I get a new wave of anger, a feeling that I just want to shake some sense into them, mixed with a feeling that I hope I never see them again. I only know that this is way beyond me and that if I meet this person again (which is fairly inevitable) I will need every bit of the Holy Spirit working in me to take over and deal with them. It is not within my humanity to be able to love them...it will have to be up to God to love them through me.