Hard Sayings

Today's excerpt from the Sermon on the Mount asks what seems to be the impossible:  love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. (cf. Mt 5:43-48). Who can do these things? Have you ever tried even just one of them?  Seems beyond us. Love, however, is the answer, for love is of God and the most powerful tool, force we have...Dorothy Day says it in a palatable, convincing way:  "My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart, that I will see you all, and live with you all, in his love." (Magnificat, June, p. 198)
Bro. Rene