I dont usually watch TV in the morning before work, but I was late shift today so I thought that I give it a shot. As it rarely is for me I liked what I saw on the TV. It was the Steve Wilkos Show ( You know Jerry Springers Bouncer who now has his own show). He called a guy out on the treatment of a 2 or 3 year old boy, who through a DNA test, he now knows is his son. He was beating him with a belt out of his own frustration while potty training him, and it made me think of how WE ALL act when our actions are not known by others, and when we are faced with them in front of a group of our peers how what is right and what is wrong becomes crystal, and the shame that we have when confronted with these truths. I wish that I could think with this sort of clarity in all of my actions.
We are all forgiven, and this is what Gods grace is for. Because we are all imperfect in our actions, thoughts, words, and deeds, we all fall short of perfection. It also reminds me that nether should any of us cast the first stone. For who among us, if all of our actions were disclosed in front of audience of our peers would not shutter, cry, and feel an immense amount of shame. WE ALL fall short. So we should all see the same faults in our brother are the same faults that are our own.
This give me (us) something to strive for. Wouldn't it be such a better life for everyone if we all conducted our lives as if every action that we take was to be seen (and I believe that it is by the divine) by all. All of those prejudices that we have towards our brothers would be put to the smelter and our conduct, our thoughts, and our actions would be rightly lived ( as we all know what these truths are deep down inside).
To deal honestly with every person. To not pass by the poor, the neglected, or even the lonely without a sympathetic hand or word. Let us strive to live as if all will be known, Won't it make the world and we ourselves happier and better?
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