Difficulties

"Difficulties" is the second of four movements from Adolphus Hailstork's Songs of Love and Justice with text by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is an excerpt from “Loving Your Enemies”, a sermon delivered at the Detroit Council of Churches’ Noon Lenten Services, March 7, 1961.

Date: 1992Composer: Adolphus C. HailstorkText: Martin Luther King, Jr.Song Collection: Songs of Love and Justice

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    It is difficult to like some people.
    Like is sentimental.
    It is difficult to like someone bombing your home,
    It is difficult to like somebody threat’ning your children!

    It is so difficult,
    so difficult to like some people
    difficult to like some people.
    Like is sentimental.

    But Jesus says: “Love them”
    But Jesus says: “Love, love them,”
    For love is greater than like.

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