Differences Between Love & Hate

"The major difference between hating and loving is perhaps whereas to love somebody is to be fulfilled and enriched by the experience, to hate somebody is to be diminished and drained by it. Lovers, by losing themselves in their loving, find themselves, become themselves. Haters simply lose themselves. Theirs is the ultimately consuming passion." (p. 123, Listening to Your Life, Frederick Buechner)

Later he says, "hate has its pleasures as well as love." (p. 128, ibid).

Which will you take pleasure in today?

We can be consumed by one or the other.

Which will consume you today?