Beware of Misinterpretation

Since I was five years old, I've moved from place to place. I've had a dozen homes, twice as many schools, and hundreds of different friends. As a result I may have adapted some odd quirks and strange manners. But there have been people that I've known that were exluded from the people around them and often mocked for their differences. I was taught at an early age to accept all people in spite of our differences, and to praise our similarities. If you praise each other for things you have in common, it builds a love in your friendship that will make it that much more beautiful and valuable. On the other hand, if you put people down, make snyde remarks to their face or behind their back, or ignore them, you are brutally damaging that person just as if you physically assaulted them. People need to be accepted and loved, it part of human nature.

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”--Frederick Buechner

I'm not saying I'd sit in a circle and sing Koom By Ah or anything, but let's all try to be more compassionate this week.