It [to love your enemy as yourself] is just too upending for most peoples’ minds until they have personally undergone the radical experience of unearned love. And, even then, it takes a lifetime to sink in. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," February 5, 2019.
Love, as I understand it today, comes down to resist not, put others first, detach from the results of action. That ongoing understanding indeed does take a lifetime. Our ego is ever with us, not always dictating our actions and reactions but for sure ready to, meaning there is no guarantee we will show love as needed today. Which is the good news...there's our reminder that God is on the field, we'd best rely on him.
Ever so often, we all go through our time in the lion's den. The lesson we learn is to not react in kind to the person(s) our ego blames for our being in that den. Ego is steeped in the belief that having someone to blame is perfect peace. It is not...having someone to blame is resentment's playground.
Our daily interactions with others will serve up someone at cross purposes with us and our plans, our perfectly innocent intentions. If we are to learn to put the other first, we must keep in ready reserve the thought-fact that our intentions may well be at cross purposes with their equally innocent plans.
We give up our ego's desire to beat them at their own game, set them straight, WIN in a word. No, we love them, mentally kiss them on the lips, for they are the angels who are protecting us from our own self...they are our guides up to a deeper level of consciousness.
We remember to fear not being thrown in the lion's den for the lion is Aslan.
Thank you.
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