What’s more, I do not hope for reconciliation, for the resolution of our differences, for this, it seems, would be a foolish and unjust hope. Rather, I recognize that while breath remains, so will these differences, or so it would seem. At the same time, I have been commanded by God to love as God does, to direct all that I do to God in love, and to extend that love to my neighbor, even to strangers, sinners, and enemies. If this neighbor is loved best in this instance only as he is treated justly, then I will also tolerate these differences for God’s sake and for the union I hope one day to share with this neighbor in God’s company and among blessed. I will hope for that final reconciliation and for the grace that will cause it, but in order to do justice now I will defer the object of my hope and settle for something less. Strangely enough, in this instance, this what love demands.”39