Balaam loathed G‑d and His emissaries, the Jewish people, with a passion. By rising early to set out on his mission of evil, he hoped to “remind” G‑d how quick the Jews had been to rebel against Him. But G‑d informed Balaam that his quickness had been preempted by that of the patriarch Abraham. Abraham had risen early in the morning in order to lovingly and devotedly fulfill G‑d’s command to sacrifice his son Isaac. The merit of Abraham’s love of G‑d counterbalanced Balaam’s hatred. Abraham’s love had been inherited by the Jewish people; their rebellions in the desert had merely been temporary lapses in their inherent, undying devotion to G‑d.
Similarly, whenever we find ourselves having to repair the damage we might have caused by having deliberately disregarded G‑d’s will, the surest way to make amends for such misdeeds is to bolster our love for Him. This love will in turn transform past misdeeds into the motivation for doing good deeds. Just as G‑d transformed Balaam’s curses into a blessing, we too can always transform “curses” into blessings.1
Everyone of us traveling down life’s highway to wherever we’re headed will never get thru one week without upsetting someone we’ve passed on the way. Sometimes our altercation won’t be that troublesome, but other times there may be fists swinging, feet kicking and definitely some not so nice words being said to one another. If we’re fortunate we may part ways still speaking and if not we may cursing all the way home and for many days, months or even years to come. The hate in our hearts will grow and grow until it makes us feel like exploding, and sometimes we may do just that and make the situation even worse. We’ve to learn there’s no way to make it right with G d until we make it right with the person or persons we’ve hurt and built up a mountain of hate in our heart for them. Hate breeds more hate then hate consumes us until we become a walking person by the name of hate. We must learn to pray and love the person we hate then we can forgive and move on closer to G d.