Love your enemies

We have all heard of the expression keep your friends close and your enemies closer right? Well I guess you could say below is a form of that phrase. But this says love them. Forgive. I loved this passage below..


“Love your enemies, … do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you” (Matthew 5:44). (Chapter 44: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ)

The full part is here : He will take His rightful place as King of heaven and earth. When Jesus comes, He will establish His government on the earth. The Church will become part of that kingdom. He will rule all the people of the earth in peace for 1,000 years.

When Jesus Christ first came to the earth, He did not come in glory. He was born in a lowly stable and laid in a manger of hay. He did not come with great armies as the Jews had expected of their Savior. Instead, He came saying, “Love your enemies, … do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you” (Matthew 5:44). He was rejected and crucified. But He will not be rejected at His Second Coming, “for every ear shall hear it, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess” that Jesus is the Christ (D&C 88:104). He will be greeted as “Lord of lords, and King of kings” (Revelation 17:14). He will be called “Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).

(Chapter 44: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ)

This was so strong and powerful to me. I have had an anger in my heart before and it is just not something that you want. I am freeing my heart of this. Why not join in on the 100 days of happy campaign and see the positives in life?



I had a great weekend this past weekend. We had dinner with the elders and one of the elders friends from Canandaigua. She has the cutest little boy! He was so sweet and playful. Then the elders all came over for service and helped us paint a bedroom for our upcoming exchange student. (And a wall in our bedroom) It was so much  fun doing this with them! Then we had a picnic the next day with my inlaws/and sunday was church. The first sunday of each month is fast and testimony. (you fast for as many meals as you can in one day...most skip breakfast and lunch) Then anyone from the church can get up and share how this church has helped impact them, and how they feel/know it is true. I did not get up to speak, However I know this church to be true, and speak up about it often. I hope this blog lets my readers look at their own faith and wonder...is this what I really want? Could there be more.