Love one another. Is this enough? Love your enemies, too. The theological virtue of Love is a path, loving others through love of God as the strength of love for God makes all loves possible. Then again, your enemies are trying to destroy you. What would happen if enemies love each other? Peace on earth? Embrace an enemy today?
Be good to them that despise you: to say you’ll pray just
makes them angry. Love is an action. Preach the liberation of the captives, and
recovery of sight to the blind. Free the oppressed.
Love saves. Mainly it saves you. The desperate love of
parent for child; the passionate love of the Song of Songs: love is hardly love
without emotion. Charity, however, may seem unloving love, cold as charity a
proverb. Who is my neighbour? Share dignity with charity: receive the same. Let charity be shown to you. God knows the
need.
Love saved the weeping woman at Christ’s feet. “Her
sins, which are many, are forgiven: for she loved much.” Or with Tyndall: “To
whom lesse is forgiven, the same doeth lesse love.” Who is my family? More
love, more family. You are one of all of Us.
