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We all know that we are called to love – even the unlovable and that’s the problem. Part of this issue resides in the question of what constitutes love. We say we love our parents, our spouses, our children, our friends and then we say we love pizza or chocolate, or our pets. What’s the difference in these loves? Is it choice or is it feelings or does it just mean preference? When we talk about the love that Jesus has for us as the type of love we are to have for others, we are talking about a lot more than feelings or preference. We are talking about a choice to put the other person’s needs first, to only want the good of the other. When we are upset with the choices the other person has made, or the ways that someone has caused us pain or injury – that becomes a very difficult thing to do.I do like the way the Jewish people sum up the Golden Rule: don’t do to someone what you would not have someone do to you. This is a kind of love that sums up the law that can be easier to live with and obey. We all know that we don’t want to be cheated, lied to, be stolen from or have our property vandalized, etc. so if we don’t do this to anyone, including our enemies, we are better able to keep the commandments by not being unloving. Whatever works for us as we come to terms with loving our enemies as well as our friends and families, is to the good and, I’m sure, approved by God.Prayer: Loving God, you love all of us equally, something our human minds and hearts sometime find difficult to copy. Please help us to be better at following your example and the example of your son, Jesus. Amen.