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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Here I sit, I am just going through the motions. Yesterday, my grandson, Samuel broke his wrist, playing in his own backyard, and his daddy, Garth Sr., broke his toe! These sound like little things, but in reality, they're not. Pain was caused by these events, and that is never small or trite. Others' pain should be all of our pain. We should all cry with those who hurt, as well as rejoice with those who have joy and happiness in their lives. It is so hard to identify with others. It should be "our job", to make sure that everyone is as comfortable as possible, in their own sphere of environment. That's too idealistic, isn't it? Too simplistic of an idea, for each and every capable human to look towards making someone else's life easier, day by day? Is it too "biblical", to suit the taste of many that live here and now? I like to imagine, that sometime in the future, here on earth, (or must we really wait until we are in heaven)?, we see each other for what we could be, and not for what we are. We love each other, Yellow, Red, Black and White, (or the many variations caused by the co-mingling of those main racial groups), for what we could be. One, the human race, that's all. Brothers and Sisters, alike, and the same. Not alien, from one another, but truly "citizens of this world", these lands, together, loving, caring, nurturing, kindred. What a wonderful world this would be. "Dear GOD, CREATOR of all, SAVIOR of all, that merely accept YOU. Forgive us for our apathy. LORD GOD, HEALER of all that accept YOUR SACRIFICE, forgive us our need to hold on to our own inadequacies, and frequent foibles. Keep us in YOUR HANDS, LORD JESUS, and show us that we are each and everyone, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, to love, honor and comfort, one another, 'til YOU come back to gather us up, and take us HOME. Amen. Amen.
~~~~~~~~~~Pamela~~~~~~~~~~~
Here I sit, I am just going through the motions. Yesterday, my grandson, Samuel broke his wrist, playing in his own backyard, and his daddy, Garth Sr., broke his toe! These sound like little things, but in reality, they're not. Pain was caused by these events, and that is never small or trite. Others' pain should be all of our pain. We should all cry with those who hurt, as well as rejoice with those who have joy and happiness in their lives. It is so hard to identify with others. It should be "our job", to make sure that everyone is as comfortable as possible, in their own sphere of environment. That's too idealistic, isn't it? Too simplistic of an idea, for each and every capable human to look towards making someone else's life easier, day by day? Is it too "biblical", to suit the taste of many that live here and now? I like to imagine, that sometime in the future, here on earth, (or must we really wait until we are in heaven)?, we see each other for what we could be, and not for what we are. We love each other, Yellow, Red, Black and White, (or the many variations caused by the co-mingling of those main racial groups), for what we could be. One, the human race, that's all. Brothers and Sisters, alike, and the same. Not alien, from one another, but truly "citizens of this world", these lands, together, loving, caring, nurturing, kindred. What a wonderful world this would be. "Dear GOD, CREATOR of all, SAVIOR of all, that merely accept YOU. Forgive us for our apathy. LORD GOD, HEALER of all that accept YOUR SACRIFICE, forgive us our need to hold on to our own inadequacies, and frequent foibles. Keep us in YOUR HANDS, LORD JESUS, and show us that we are each and everyone, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, to love, honor and comfort, one another, 'til YOU come back to gather us up, and take us HOME. Amen. Amen.
