Can you truly love when you are beset by tests and trials, and you feel everything and everyone is against you? It is easy enough to love when everything is going smoothly. It is when you find yourself up against it that you are inclined to close your heart and stop the flow of love; and yet it is the time when the need for love is even greater. When you can love despite all outer conditions, then you can be sure it is My divine love which is flowing in and through you, and that this wondrous love will win through in the end. Love never gives up; it will try one way and then another until it wins through. Love is gentle, and yet strong and persistent. Like water it wears a way through to the very hardest of hearts. So never accept 'no' for an answer. Love and keep on loving, and watch the way open up.