Excellent insight ! Thank you for always challenging your readers to dig deeper in so many hard topics ! I always love when I see an email from you w a new article you’ve written 🙏
I frequently ask the question “how” when it comes to loving my enemies. I work in an industry where back-stabbing is the real art form, where deceit is the language of business. How do I love when I’ve been so injured? I’ve been the defendant in an easement lawsuit for 11 years with a plaintiff whose stated goal is to see me bankrupt. He may win… How do I choose to love him? I visit men on death row who are universally considered enemies of the State. “They’re not choirboys” as they frequently remind me - they’re not the lovable type. How is love shown to these enemies? The answer is different every time and with every situation. I’ve taken clients back who left me; my wife has twice bought dinner for the developer who is suing us as we’ve seen him dining in the same restaurant as us; we visit men condemned to die for their aggressions. And still I ask, how…
Very important questions that you raise here. Jesus' teaching about "shaking the dust off your feet" come to mind. I think it's a mistake to assume that love is always and ordinarily warm and fuzzy. Its costly. As Dostoevsky famously, "love in practice is a dreadful thing compared to the love in dreams."
Very true - we are called to love each other - too bad our world wasn't addicted to Grace and Love. Currently reading The Light We Give - lots to think about.
This is an outstanding piece of writing right here. Some of those lines hit me to my core. This is a much-needed read in today’s angry climate. I’m going to share this in as many ways as I can!
Scott, this was beautiful, and just what I needed. Thank you.
Excellent insight ! Thank you for always challenging your readers to dig deeper in so many hard topics ! I always love when I see an email from you w a new article you’ve written 🙏
I frequently ask the question “how” when it comes to loving my enemies. I work in an industry where back-stabbing is the real art form, where deceit is the language of business. How do I love when I’ve been so injured? I’ve been the defendant in an easement lawsuit for 11 years with a plaintiff whose stated goal is to see me bankrupt. He may win… How do I choose to love him? I visit men on death row who are universally considered enemies of the State. “They’re not choirboys” as they frequently remind me - they’re not the lovable type. How is love shown to these enemies? The answer is different every time and with every situation. I’ve taken clients back who left me; my wife has twice bought dinner for the developer who is suing us as we’ve seen him dining in the same restaurant as us; we visit men condemned to die for their aggressions. And still I ask, how…
Very important questions that you raise here. Jesus' teaching about "shaking the dust off your feet" come to mind. I think it's a mistake to assume that love is always and ordinarily warm and fuzzy. Its costly. As Dostoevsky famously, "love in practice is a dreadful thing compared to the love in dreams."
Very true - we are called to love each other - too bad our world wasn't addicted to Grace and Love. Currently reading The Light We Give - lots to think about.
Excellent exposition of a difficult but important spiritual discipline. Loving your enemies, the revolutionary teachings of Christ.
This is an outstanding piece of writing right here. Some of those lines hit me to my core. This is a much-needed read in today’s angry climate. I’m going to share this in as many ways as I can!