So, if the sun shines brilliantly upon the good and the bad, can it shine boldly enough to be blinding? If I take off my self protective sunglasses and stare into the blazing illumination of God's transformational fire, will I no longer be able to see the aspects of the "other" that move me to judge or hate?
I am not sure I know how to do that -- do you?
I heard of a victim of abuse who faced her abuser and said: "I can not imagine being in heaven with you. Yet I know that Jesus cannot imagine heaven without you. Therefore, I forgive you."
Some would say her statement was peculiar. The statement could not have sprouted from some egoic will to do the right thing. Only a transformed heart that had experienced a melt down in God's love could stimulate such words directed towards somebody who had violated and abused so demonically.
If we stand before God, holding our enemies before God, it may be that they are our neighbors in God's sight.
How can we sit with this statement that God's goodness is so lavish that it spills upon the friends and the enemies?
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