The hard, oh-so-hard, lesson we are learning: It is relatively simple to "get" that the Word is to love your enemies. But the getting, i.e., the realization of just a smidgen of the inner meaning there, is to be our daily discipline for a lifetime, I'm guessing.
My today's "God Calling" note: 2013 - B's and F's (et al.'s) interpretation of my life is to be embraced not resisted. Thank you.
Clearly "B and F, et al.," were causing me pause five years ago; not surprisingly, I have no memory of the problem(s) right now. So I "got" it then. From my eyebrows up, I got it: Resist not, embrace. And that's close enough to perfect in getting us headed in the right direction.
It's in my boy Ruckus' passing that the lesson is traveling deeper into my heart. Ruckus never met, nor was he met with, an enemy. I doubt not that he would wag his tail and grin at the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and the old Grinch would melt before him.
Love...if Jesus is a turnoff, think of the Lennon/McCartney song, "All You Need Is Love." And there it is! You love your enemies by not making enemies!
Imagine.
Thank you.
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