Loving Your "Enemy"

The word
"Enemy" kind of skews things
doesn't it?

(In the beginning was
the Word)

As if the other person
is in some sort of attack on us.

Now if it's knives or guns or baseball bats,
then briefly,
anyway
this seems like a good person to
calm down
or to avoid.

And in most of our life
the "enemy"
is just someone having a hard day,
or a hard life,
and they are taking a bit of it out
on us.

sometimes this is hard
to take

sometimes not

often,
the Work of Byron Katie
is a huge help