But I Tell You, Love Even Your Enemies

Jesus commanded us to love, so we know love is not just a feeling, since we cannot command feelings. Love is mostly a decision. Jesus did not say: when you get healed, love. When you grow up, love. When you feel loving, love. When you get it together and have dealt with all your mother/father/husband/children wounds, then you must love. No, the commandment for all of us is to love now and thus fill the tragic gaps of every moment.

—Richard Rohr