Do you feel hate in your heart?

"Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness." (St. Jane Frances de Chantal)

I came across with the quote above and with the conversation I was having with a friend I thought about this subject: Do you feel hate in your heart?

Well, I do feel hate in my heart, all the time. I think it's impossible for us, humans, to not feel hate. But fortunately, there's ways to manage it.

I, for exemple, try to pray a Hail Mary every time I feel hate. It sounds simple, but I believe that if you have a frequent bad feeling and you switch it for a good one, you can, little by little, transform the hate into something calming, like love.

Feeling hate is a terrible sensation for the body, mind and soul. It destroys your nerves, sanity and it infects other good feelings.

I personally think we alrealdy have enough hate in this world. Why not be joyful? Why not be loving? Why not follow the example of our Christ?

May the grace of God be with you.