Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time (C): Luke 6:27-38
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect – from My Back Pages, by Bob Dylan
Love your enemies.
Offer the other cheek as well.
Lend expecting nothing back.
We are all quite familiar with these words, and with similar teachings of Jesus found elsewhere in the Gospels. We quote these words. We honor them in various ways. We do not often live according to them, however. More often, our mottoes seem to be more like this:
Fight fire with fire.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
I have a right to everything that belongs to me. Continue reading “Free To Love, Free To Live”