For we do not war against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
-Ephesians 6:12
I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy. He or she is not your enemy. It is the situation, the attitude. The evil that controls men's actions. Hatred and disgust of a person is not necessary nor should it be allowed to pervade the mind. The person is a spiritual host to be loved, knowing that if the characteristics which are so bothersome, so tedious, so offensive- if they could only be eradicated, made to not exist, to be vanquished, what you would be left with is a shell of a human being ready to be filled with love. Ready to be covered and lavished with acceptance and understanding. Knowing that we are, that I am, one behaviour away from being the source of all the aforementioned negative qualities: evil, hatred, disgust, bothersome, tedious, offensive. But I am not your enemy. Empty me of all offending qualities and I am you. You are me and I am to treat you as I would be treated. To love you as myself.
