Jesus set such impossible ways of living for us. We try to live according to his teaching. How could we possibly do this?
Love our enemies?
Early venture capital fund director and current executive coach Jerry Colonna stated on a podcast interview about loving even your enemies. While neither he or the interviewer was a Donald Trump supporter, he responded to a question about loving even him.
Colonna replied that he can see the injured little boy trying to live up to an exacting father, and he could love that little boy who was injured for life.
19th Century American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow noted, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life enough sorrow and suffering to disarm all hostility.”
Meditation teachers for most of my life have taught about awareness. Expanding that awareness beyond seeing just me (which many people are not even aware of themselves) to those around me and even far from me.
These practices can help us bring Jesus’s teaching into our lives in order to somehow bring some love even to our enemies.
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