Love your Enemies...

I found this on OBOB (the Catholic forum here):

holyorders said:

People will disappoint you.
People will offend you.
People will sin against you.
People will hurt you badly.
People will betray you.


At the end of the day, will you still show your love to them? Can you sacrifice your pride and ego for the sake of forgiveness? Will you still love them?

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And...

From Mother Theresa:

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see in the final analysis. it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

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Jesus tells us to love our enemies, to do good to our enemies and to those who wrong us, to go the extra mile, to give our extra coat, to do more than expected, to forgive 7 x 77 times and more (endlessly), to love unconditionally, etc.

Through our sufferings - and these include those who wrong, reject, hate, backstab, gossip against, us - we must learn to love unconditionally. God help us!