30 Days of Forgiveness - Day 5 - Forgiveness Focus - Enemies
"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend." --Abraham Lincoln Most of us probably wouldn't admit to having "an enemy" after the age of 8 or so, maybe high school at the latest, but sometimes people we encounter can feel like enemies. Sometimes the person who feels like our enemy is our partner, or our best friend, or our child or sometimes even our Self. Other times our enemy is someone we don't even know: the woman who bumps into us in the grocery store and doesn't apologize, the man who honks loudly at us in traffic, or an unknown person halfway around the world who doesn't share our values or our world view. Whether you call a person your enemy or not, I believe we all have people who feel like our enemies, at least some of the time. This summer I had the privilege to travel to Tokyo, Japan with my son and his fifth grade class. A few days into the trip we dropped the kids off at a school in the suburbs of Tokyo to stay with a ho...