What can those with whom I struggle teach me about love?

First, quite frankly, they can serve as examples of what NOT to do when trying to be loving towards others. Recently, some people called me out about something I said on Facebook rather harshly. While I can see, in retrospect, how what I said might have come off as ignorant, the choice of people from that group to verbally attack me was hurtful and taught me the importance of “calling in” for an honest, respectful conversation rather than “calling people out” harshly if they say something we perceive as problematic. At the same time, however, there is also a lesson to be learned from this about loving people I might not get along with and practicing forgiveness. They, too, probably had good intentions. They probably wanted me to be aware of the issue they disagreed with me on and felt it necessary to teach me, but maybe they just didn’t know how to go about it respectfully, not because they’re bad people, but because they’re caught in a callout culture that is pervasive in America right now (and I’ve been guilty of calling people out harshly before myself, even though I thought I was doing a service). Putting that fact into perspective helps me to love them, even though what happened hurt a little.