I could certainly spend more time praying for others. Not only for their good, but for mine as well. And that praying for others is a matter of righteousness and justice. I don’t know if you have set yourself a New Year’s Resolution this year, but praying more for others, is a pretty darn good one, and one that I will be committing to this year.

Have you ever said to yourself, “I just don’t feel like doing [fill in the blank] right now,” even though you know it’s the right thing to do? I think if we are being honest, most of us say some version of the above to ourselves often. This experience of knowing you should do something, but are having a hard time being motivated, is an ancient one.

This is the kind of love that Jesus shows to us by transgressing the boundaries of divinity to become human, die on a cross, and be resurrected for the whole world. It is this kind of radical, boundary-breaking love that brings true and genuine peace.