With all honesty, we have to admit that there are people whom we don't like, or resent, and even detest.
Certainly life is not all fresh air and sunshine, and people are not all pretty flowers and butterflies.
There will be people who irritate us and even be a "pain in the neck" for us.
So we have a mental list of persons that we would just want to avoid and not to come into contact with.
But turning the tables around, we may want to ask ourselves if we are on other's people's "Don't like" list.
Certainly, in all honesty, we too have to admit that there are people who don't like us, or even resent and detest us.
In a way, it can be said that what we think of others is also a reflection of what others think about us.
If that is the case, then the 1st reading urges us to remember that we are to love because God loved us first.
And if we say that we love God, but harbour ill-feelings about others, then we have to remember the commandment of love that God has given us.
When we choose to love others, then we are proclaiming the Good News of God's love.