There are no limits on true self-giving. It is not just to those one likes that one makes the offering. This involves a love that issues from the very CENTER of the person's being, directed to the CENTER of the other person's being, a love that gives ALL that the person is in order to foster the other person's life, a love that is offered to EVERYONE, without exception and without condition. The love is not offered to people because they are one's friends; people become "friends" because one loves them.
your people...
Restore us, O Holy One;
let your face shine upon us,
teach us to love...
You companion us through the wilderness,
through the shadows created by fear.
You plant your Seed into each heart...
Restore us, O Holy One!
Let your face shine upon us,
teach us to love!