A good point borrowed froma friend

I find it confusing, for lack of a better word, how “Christians” and most people feel it is strange to be friends with an ex girlfriend, wife, lover or what ever. They consider it good to be friends, but not REAL friends. You should be social friends. Talk every so often. Maybe hang out every few months. And eventually drift apart and only have a “friendship’ through mutual contacts or children. I do admit that is easier, but not what I think God would expect of one called by His name. How many times do we walk away from Christ, only to return when we realize we didn’t want to leave? We come back, maybe not the same as we left and our relationship is different for the change, but it is no less personal. HE does not distance himself from us because we choose to leave. He welcomes us back with open arms. Why can we not do the same to the people we love that way. We ask, “What would Jesus do?” Yet choose to hate, despise and reject those we claim to have loved or still do love. I guess it is easier to believe the lie and be damned, than to accept the truth that we choose to hate because love is just so hard to do when you are hurt.