I hope you’re listening. 

But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 

It may be the most difficult act of self care you’ll ever attempt.

Loving and forgiving your enemies is the model Jesus left to us. Not only to preserve peace and relationships with others but to keep intact our own experience and witness of God’s love. 

While the self may want justice and punishment, parking your mind and heart in that lot waiting for judgment is at best, a waste of precious time. 

Do to others as you would have them do to you.

‭‭Luke‬ ‭6‬:‭27‬-‭31‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Being good to others is being good to yourself. 

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭10‬:‭27‬ ‭NIV‬‬