Even if you’re overall a friendly, open person, and even if there’s no one you’re openly warring with or frostily snubbing, there are people whose name makes a shadow cross over your sky. Whether it’s their fault or yours – or, most likely, some combination of the two – these are people with whom you are not at peace. When they are around, your peace is disturbed. You know who I mean.
Read the rest of my latest for The Catholic Weekly.
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Does this include Dr. O’Donnell, Simcha?
Of course!
Excellent!
For a long time it seemed un-Christian to me to even admit I had enemies. Your definition reminds me of C. S. Lewis’s – not necessarily someone who has it out for me, but whoever “I am really tempted to hate and traduce”. Plank in my own eye and all that.
Some of this is going in my journal so I can re-read it often.
Wonderful job!
Thank you!