Self-Love: the middleman
Self-love is the middleman between our relationship with God and others. We can know and care about how people would feel when treated a certain way, based on our own sensitivity to how we would feel. Our sensitivity to ourselves, or self-awareness, being regulated by God’s love for us, teaches us what is acceptable and right for us, as for our human dignity, and what is not (sometimes it’s not even other people doing us wrong, it’s ourselves. God’s love for us sheds light on those cases too, on things we may want to deal with and things we may not want to deal with. In some cases, opening up to more of God’s love for us makes us grow inevitably in our self-love …and to more growth, more responsibility… Are we still together👀?)