Humanity
Last night was not the first of my many restless nights. My brain seems to love storming ideas in a pitch black, 60 degree cooled room as I’m curling up under my bulky sheets. Well, one of my thoughts was a statement my friend made, “I hate Valentine’s Day”.
With my expression asking why, he went on to explain. He thought it was stupid that America designated a day to show your mate you love them. He said it should be shown everyday and not just with material things, but in how you treat them. I thought he was absolutely right and his statement made me think about Christmas as well and all that it represents.
Here we are, one day out of three hundred and sixty-five practicing the kindness that was shown to Jesus by the wise men. This is something that we should be practicing everyday, but instead the other three hundred sixty-four, people treat each other like something unpleasant at the end of a stick. And, I’m thinking about all of the other holidays like Easter & Thanksgiving that we treat this way…that we don’t practice everyday and just how much it affects us all on these days in between. Not even counting the chaotic criminal acts that we see everyday on CNN, but the vindictive things that people do to one another on a daily basis. Mental & physical abuse, so called friends betraying each other’s trust, & cheating on your mate like it’s a trend. Even on Christmas, eighty-five out of a hundred are only giving so that they can receive. There’s no sincerity and no one seems to care.
I’m not naive enough to believe that if everyone practiced the acts of kindness that the wise men showed, peace would mobilize a nation. I believe in the inevitability that Revelations speaks of the world becoming worst before it can become better. But, just because the world has to hit rock bottom before it can change and we can’t know when the change will take place, does that mean people are supposed to lose faith and not care? With all this in mind it brought back a poem I read once that all four corners might find useful in bandaging the topic discussed….
Through this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass;
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it is plain
I shall not pass this way again.
Through this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass;
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it is plain
I shall not pass this way again.
