loving your enemy

Been thinking through the admonition to love your enemy. For most of us we turn the concept of having an enemy into some abstract hypothetical and comfort ourselves with the thought that if we ever did have an enemy we would treat them well. But since we don't have any enemies then we don't have to worry about it. Problem is we treat family like opposition and the people close to us as hostile. We take our "self- defense" as an excuse to "protect" ourselves. Essentially we're treating the people we are supposed to love most as enemies. When Jesus tells us to love our enemies he is telling us that we are to treat even our enemies with a love that is based upon life in God. There is a basic goodness that we are to treat all people with because there is a basic goodness that God treats all of us with. If we are supposed to love and essentially bless our enemies, just think how well we should treat the people who are our friends and family. All for the glory of Christ.