I confess
that I do not easily love my enemies.
That I am quick to anger,
quick to defend,
quick to wound with words.
I confess
that I have made others into enemies
who are, in truth,
simply human beings
who see the world differently than I do.
And yet—
I believe
that the way of Jesus calls me beyond instinct,
beyond retaliation,
beyond the easy path of contempt.
I believe
that love is not sentiment,
but action—
a courageous, creative, subversive act
that reveals truth without violence.
I believe
that God is compassionate toward all—
the grateful and the ungrateful,
the kind and the cruel—
and that I am invited
to reflect that same compassion.
I believe
that I am free—
free to choose my response,
free to choose who I become,
free to refuse hatred
even when it feels justified.
I believe
that loving my enemy
does not mean surrendering to injustice,
but exposing it—
with dignity,
with courage,
with unrelenting grace.
I believe
that I will fail in this work—
again and again—
and that even in my failure
I am still being formed.
So I commit
to the difficult path:
to love when I would rather hate,
to bless when I would rather curse,
to act when I would rather withdraw.
Not because it is easy,
but because it is the way of Christ.
And though I am not yet who I am called to be,
I will keep walking—
trusting that love,
lived honestly and imperfectly,
can still change the world.
Amen.
Infinitely Precious 