Loving Enemies

Perhaps one of the most demanding teachings of Jesus is found in today's selection from the Sermon on the Mount: But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who perseute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.  For if you love those who love you, what recompense diwll yo have? (Mt 5: 44-45), When we think back on those who have wronged us, or whose personalities conflict with ours, it takes a monmental effort to love them.  Yet, the model is our heavenly Father who loves all and has a plan for all, whose sunshin and rain fall on them as well as on us. May his grace enable us to be as forgiving, welcoming and loving as he is.
Bro. Rene