Power To Love Enemies – Henri Nouwen

Following Jesus means to live a life in which we start loving one another with God’s original love and not with the needy wounded love that harms others. Original love is a love that has the power to love enemies as well as friends. It is a divine love that makes us “sons and daughters of the Most High, who is kind to the grateful and the wicked…. who causes the sun to rise on bad people as well as the good, and the rain to fall on honest and dishonest people” (Matthew 5:45). — Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety