I belong to a religion that teaches us to love everyone. Unfortunately, I\u2019m failing at that.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong. I want to love everyone. I think the world could use more love. I think I could benefit from giving out more love. But I struggle with loving everyone.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m tempted each day with desires for revenge, or being right, or wishing misfortune on others, or judging others. These struggles interfere with my goal of loving others.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure why I\u2019ve been considering this lately. Maybe it\u2019s the current conflict between Israelis and Palestinians (or should I say \u201cconflict between humans and humans\u201d?). There\u2019s just so much hate and selfishness in the world. People are so focused on themselves.<\/p>\n
Even when I complain about bad drivers being oblivious to others around them and thinking only of themselves, I, in turn, am thinking of only myself: judging those drivers, expressing hatred toward them.<\/p>\n
I know this post seems to just ramble on, but I have emotions churning in my stomach and buzzing in my head that I\u2019m having a difficult time expressing.<\/p>\n
I think this will be something I will be pondering for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m tempted each day with desires […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/07\/1-1256486214nWNq.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-JT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2004\/11\/29\/what-do-you-look-like\/","url_meta":{"origin":2845,"position":0},"title":"What Do You Look Like?","author":"Kim Siever","date":"29 November 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Cameron asks everyone to post screenshots of their current projects. 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