I don't even know how to respond to this other than to say it hits me deeply, and I agree. I always tell my kids(they're all old now, but still I tell them) that for every situation, there is cause to put oneself in others' shoes. Behind the layers...so, so many layers...arrogance, fear, Insecurity, vanity, anger, even compassion and love...peel it all away. What's left in each of us is something so innocent, like a very small child, just learning to walk, speak, and eat solid food. Children are the best of us. And in each one of us there is a child. That part is the best of you. That part holds God's light, purity, wisdom. That's where the clean conscience lives. If we could all just find that inside ourselves and our neighbors, I think we would be on our way to something very special.
I don't even know how to respond to this other than to say it hits me deeply, and I agree. I always tell my kids(they're all old now, but still I tell them) that for every situation, there is cause to put oneself in others' shoes. Behind the layers...so, so many layers...arrogance, fear, Insecurity, vanity, anger, even compassion and love...peel it all away. What's left in each of us is something so innocent, like a very small child, just learning to walk, speak, and eat solid food. Children are the best of us. And in each one of us there is a child. That part is the best of you. That part holds God's light, purity, wisdom. That's where the clean conscience lives. If we could all just find that inside ourselves and our neighbors, I think we would be on our way to something very special.