enemies

Friday February 25^th, Matthew 5: ⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and all of humanity and called it good.  Since that time humanity has been trying to prove that they or their group was better than someone else or someone else’s group.  Ever since Cain and Able there have been enemies, and as a result, there has been sadness.  Christ calls us to love our enemies because they are more like us than we would like to admit, sharing the same DNA and the breath of God.  Enemies are a human construct.  Community and family of God, is a God construct.  And the God who created us and calls us good, loves us all.