Set aside for a moment, the great brutality that exists; remember the acts of greater courage, integrity, decency, self control, and forgiveness.
There is always another story. There is always more than meets the eye.
It is easy to remember a cruelty because those left a wound, a scab hid the rest, and hid the best. Those appalling acts, those appalling people, were the exception.
The blindness you see isn’t believing in the essential goodness of people, it is failing to see it.
You can hold your equilibrium, your humanity, daily even when you have the most gruesome tasks, unfathomable griefs, and unthinkable happenings. You can remain hopeful by coming home fully in body and mind.
We have a duty sacred or otherwise to the other person, to those who love and care for them to make sure their humanity is preserved.
There is something everyone needs to know, to learn. There are four statements that lead to wisdom. Do with them as you will. ” I am sorry.”, “I was wrong.””I don’t know.” and, “I need help.”
Look at people with eyes of kindness.
Recognize that part of you, you see in other people.
Holding onto resentments only binds you to the person you hate. Let go of it, for your own sake, no one else.
You are lying on your deathbed, with one hour to live. Who is it exactly, all these years, you have needed to forgive?
Matthew 10:36 And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household.
Forgiveness
My thanks to Louise Penny, author of the Inspector Gamache series.
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