Love Your Enemies

Bledsoe Morgan was spouting off down at the barbershop this morning about a sermon he heard last Sunday about loving your enemies. He didn't buy it. He claimed he tried it once and a particular man he considered an enemy took advantage of him and it cost him hundreds of dollars. Somebody spoke up and said that if he really loved that enemy he would not have allowed him to treat him in that fashion since it was bad for both of them. From there the conversation got more and more convoluted (I think that's the right word). They got to talking about tough love and that switched over to peoples kids and how they were taken advantage of by their young'ns. Anyway when I got home I decided to look into this thing about loving my enemies so I took paper and pen and sat down to write out a list of all those who I considered an enemy. I couldn't come up with a single name. Now I can't decide if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

Tales of Harper, short stories and poems about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle