This is my commandment,
that ye love one another.
Jesus, in John 15:12
Given journalistic training and a naturally judgmental personality, the idea of spreading love feels a little smarmy, simplistic, even banal. So many people are so hard to love.
Like many idealists, I find it easier to love humanity in the aggregate, than in the day to day; easier to choke up at the idea of love, than to work at the embarrassing practice of it.
This is surely the hardest part of being human; why else would Jesus have to command it?
(photo of Paul Farmer from media.independent.com/img/photos)
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