"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."

How many times have we heard in our lifetime our Lord’s Eleventh Commandment repeated? How many sermons have I preached on love, and have you heard? Yet, in spite of words and commandment, everyone has a somebody whom they cannot love.

Somebody is not always the same person, at the same time, in the same place. True as well for the comedian who jested, "There are people in this world who do not love one another, and I hate people like that!" Rest assured, with certainly, every one of us has a someone, somewhere, sometime, in some place or situation.

My "someone" came at the grocery store recently. I have need to confess to you because I’d never be able to speak on this text this morning without confessional first.…