Choosing to love when it is hard

At Sharing the wonders of God's Grace, by Crystal, she writes on Choosing to love when it is hard.   From the behavior of our pets to family, friends, and everyone else, choosing to love anyways is difficult to do, but it is what we are called to do.

Crystal ends her post with:

..And then we think of God who loved us first---and chose to love is when we were trapped in sin and far from Him. Maybe we weren't that easy to love, but He loved us so much and paid the price by sending His one and only Son to die for us taking our sin upon himself when He had never sinned.

So as we follow in His footsteps, we keep choosing to love even when its hard because He first loved us.