Saturday, June 30, 2007

No easy task!

...so, loving my enemies includes loving George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and neo-cons as well as the religious extremists who flew the planes into the buildings and wage acts of terror everywhere. I've been told my initial entry is pretty harsh and non-loving especially toward our current president and his administration. I'd agree it was unloving (though I do not think it unjustly harsh.) I'm still learning how best to confront such blatant wrongs in a loving way. Practicing what one preaches is no easy task! However, our human struggle to practice the truth doesn't make the truth any less true! For Christians it's a command, not a suggestion - we must love our enemies as a matter of choice, practice and obedience while simultaneously praying for grace to work the deep, necessary changes in our hearts... so I struggle, I strive to love even those I would hate or who would hate me, and I pray for grace and a change of my hard-heart to one of love, compassion and humility in order to more fully live in the light, love and joy of God's heart, which includes "speaking the truth in love" even when speaking to power, arrogance, hatred, or evil -