PRAYER MOMENT
Saturday 20
February 2016
LOVE YOUR
ENEMIES
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you … be perfect.” (Matt 5:43-48)
Reflection. God is an inclusive God and does not
go in for the neat distinctions in which we take comfort. Margaret Thatcher
used to ask her aides of people she was about to meet, “Is he one of us?” We
can list our “enemies” easily. They are people who threaten my security, my
view of the world – members of the opposition, migrants or others who do not
“fit in.” To be perfect is to be free of all desire to judge and categorise; to
open my heart to people who are different and to recognise that people on the
whole are doing the best they can.
Prayer. Lord, open our hearts to accept
others – even the difficult and less attractive. Amen.
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