NOTES for Rom 8:26-30
God loves us always, all the time, without stopping for a second. And nothing "can separate us" from His love. From outside, nothing. No other creature, not even affliction. Only sin. Sin can. We ourselves can. God gave us freedom, including the freedom to refuse Him, His love, and His forgiveness.
Father Daniel-Ange wrote: "Sin is a short circuit of love." We begin to resist the love of God already when we commit sin; we separate ourselves from it when we refuse to ask forgiveness. God can forgive everything, everything of which we repent. He gives us the strength to forgive and to ask forgiveness, He gives us the strength to change, He loves us and always accepts us. Only we ourselves can reject Him; He gave us such freedom. And then we drive another nail into His arms opened toward us.