love your enemies eh?

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you
may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and
the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those
who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing
that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others?
Do not even pagans do that?

i've been thinking a lot about yesterday and about my post.

i don't know the answer to this question and i really don't even want to ask it....but...

what would it look like to love that man? to not be drawn into his violent, angry world, but to somehow love him with the same creativity and passion that the art show shows for invisible children?

i found myself saying - outloud to my mom [who was there]: "this is why i never leave the city anymore." dogmatism. othering. us and them. NOT LOVE.

is it reasonable to ask me to love that man - in that sacred space i worked so hard to bring about and placed so much hope in? no. not reasonable - but right anyway.