Love Better: Loving My Neighbors

By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 15/02/2023

Certain middle-aged women didn’t get the nickname “Karen” for no reason. No, they got the nickname for their inability to love their neighbors and for their downright disgraceful treatment of people who are absolutely their neighbors.  It’s not just the “Karens” of the world either. I wish it were simply non Jesus-loving individuals displaying this poor behavior, but, sadly, I don’t feel like it is. I’ve sat in too many restaurants on too many Sundays and watched people pray before their meals in their dress clothes, talk about their church services, and then treat their wait staff like trash. It just makes me think of Jesus’s conversation with the Religious Scholar in Luke 10: