BECAUSE GOD INTENDS OUR ENEMIES TO BE OUR ALLIES and friends someday, Jesus insists that we pray for them. Such universalism is a challenge to any age. People find it far easier to write off individuals, even whole groups, as evil than to maintain a sense that we’re all in this together and need to work out differences.
– Robert Corin Morris
Provocative Grace: The Challenge in Jesus’ Words
I don’t think it’s ever easy. But that’s the least some of us can or are willing to do. It’s not the end, but a start. Enough said for now.
Found the following quote in a book:
-Pray for your enemy that he serve God-
=Orchot Tzadikim=
source: Jewish New Testament Commentary by David H. Stern, pg30