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"You shall love your neighbor...and enemies...."

"You have heard it said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." Mt 5.43-45

Interpretation- As people, we are to unconditionally love EVERYTHING. This is God's way- 'for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.'

Unconditional love implies total acceptance of what IS. Any judging, or dividing up of Reality into categories of either 'acceptable' or 'unacceptable', immediately brings alienation from God and His kingdom. A person can choose to live in REALITY and enjoy the wonders that are freely given, or choose to live in an imagined, FANTASY world (which that person is desperately trying to control.)

One chooses every moment, and you have freedom to change that choice. However, the choice is usually 'forced' by habit (as if one is an automaton) and that choice follows from past 'programming', that is, the way one desires to see the world and themselves within it. Knowing which world you inhabit is simple; do you feel at peace and find everything you need to be freely give to you, or do you feel as if you must fight and claw your way through life to survive?

The good news is that REALITY is easy to find. Be assured, even though this may sound impossible (it IS impossible for the alienated self) it's natural for those who have 'died to self'.

Matthew

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