Have Some Enemies? Use This Wisdom...

Love of enemy does not mean denying that people are hostile toward those weaker than themselves and acting as if there were no enemies of life. The starving children of this world, the fish, the trees, have real ‘enemies’, …’Evil has an address. It has a telephone number.’ Love of enemy also means attributing to the enemy a capacity to repent, to change his or her mind, to behave differently. Love does not ignore hostility but makes people capable of overcoming it.

--from the Book, “Jesus of Nazareth” by Dorothee Soelle & Luise Schottroff, page 78