Sinners Loving Sinners

How is it possible for two sinners, despite being redeemed, to share a life together without being affected by one or the other's selfishness? It's not. But in making that their goal--sadly, in my experience, it's far from theirs alone--they lost far more than the opportunity to learn to work out their differences; they lost the opportunity to discover the other person's love remained even when he or she did something wrong. They didn't learn that God's way of strengthening relationships goes beyond merely doing the right thing.

--William P. Smith, Loving Well (Even If You Haven't Been) (Greensboro, NC: New Growth, 2012), 57-58.