She also provides practical strategies for how to respond to difficult people in a way that is both loving and respectful. It is a very helpful, easy to read and very encouraging book that helps to change your perspective about difficult people and help to be more loving and compassionate towards them. This is more than likely the very reason in the back of the book, she enclosed scriptures to assist readers in dealing with offenses and finding true freedom. Have patience, it may take a long time to get a break through with a difficult person, it may never happen.

We should pray that God will help people to be all He wants them to be and do all He wants them to do. With God’s help, you can turn frustrating interactions into pleasant ones and bring peace that puts out the fires of strife when arguments flare. And, always remember, love is so much more than a 'feeling', it is being kind and treating people the way we want to be treated.

Disclaimer: I receive complimentary books from various sources, including, publishers, publicists, authors, and/or NetGalley. God's love flowing through us is strong enough to melt even the hardest hearts, so use kindness as a weapon to overcome the meanness in people. Because whatever the Lord commands us to do, He is going to give us the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it - and that includes loving and being good to difficult people! Her points were still scripture based and it didn’t detract from the argument, so not a big deal, just make sure you read with your brain engaged.

She admitted to how she would choose the cans with the smallest dents and she used this exampled to display how the take the same approach with regard to dealing and choosing people we associate with.I've only given this book three stars as I felt like the ideas weren't as helpful as I'd hoped and the practical suggestions did not arrive until the very end. This book is filled with tons of sound counsel and scripture on love and peace; on how to love people who are hard to love. She used to this to illustrate to us on how we may all have wounds that run deep but we are still much better off connecting with others and choosing to love. Joyce Meyer has written another wonderful book about we can learn and go about loving people who have hurt you, been cruel to you, betrayed you or even have gone out of their way make your life miserable.

One of the things we can do is pray for them, if possible help them if they need help and forgive them with our whole heart and even love, not necessarily feeling love but loving them as fellow human beings who might have problems of their own. This book is loaded with practical steps and spiritual truths that will aid readers in their pursuit to love themselves, their families, their communities and the rest of the world the way Jesus does.Because whatever the Lord commands us to do, He is going to give us the power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish it – and that includes loving and being good to difficult people! We have to be willing to see our own faults and recognize that we are undoubtedly hard to love at times.

I’d recommend taking this book alongside with you as you are struggling with loving someone who is hard to love, because a lot of her points made perfect sense to me as someone who’s been struggling with this for years. Through personal anecdotes and biblical references, Meyer encourages readers to look beyond the surface and see the value and worth in all people, regardless of how they may treat us.When you are interacting with someone who is hard, try thinking about overlooking things for God's sake. I’m still figuring myself out as a young person and this book definitely wasn’t what I thought it would be.