Going for back to back posts which I believe has not been done in the history of this blog; I guess I just want to reward my loyal readers as I have lately gotten a lot of very positive feedback. So I want to start off by saying thank you all who read this, it really does mean a lot to me that I am able to communicate my thoughts and ideas with such a wife audience and that that audience enjoys (I think…) what I have to say. I was just telling someone the other day that having this blog is really a great way to gather your thoughts about this experience while at the same time being able to update friends, family, and perspective Peace Corps volunteers alike. The blog really is a great format for this experience that I am blessed to be going through. So a couple days ago when I was reading “The Power of Kindness,” (finished it the other day and like I said, would highly recommend it). Anyways, there is a section in there in which Ferrucci discusses is discussing service and he tells a story of an old man who receives a message from an angel of God, the angel tells the man that he will meet God tomorrow. So the man goes about his day the next day, he helps a women carry a heavy load, he helps a young boy whose kite was stuck in the tree, and he helps a lost man find his way. When he gets home he is a little disappointed because he thinks that he did not meet God, at that moment he receives another message from the angel of God telling him that he did meet Him. He was the women who needed help with her load, He was the young boy with the kite, and He was the lost man who needed directions. The moral of the story is to treat everyone you meet as though they are God because the fact is that God is a part of every one of us.
While I feel that this is a great story and the moral definitely rings true, I cannot help but question why the human condition needs the extra incentive to treat people nicely. It seems that if God was not a part of every man then we would not have the same incentive to treat everyone we meet as the part of God that we know they are. I feel like this is a sad commentary on human beings as it seems that we do not have it within us to be kind to our fellow brother and sisters for the simple fact that they are our brothers and sisters. I am not sure if I am currently making sense but stick with me here if you can. If God was not a part of every single one of us, would the respect from one human being to another diminish? I believe it would, because we would be missing a huge part of what makes us human, the part of Christ that is inside of every one of us. That part of us is the purest part of who we are, and I think this part is different for each and every one of us, it shows itself in the gifts that we have been blessed with. This pure part of us is exposed to the world when we find our passion and begin following the plan that God has for us. When a teacher begins teaching, a doctor (or PA, or PT I’ve got your back Megs and Jobro) begins healing, or any other assorted passions begin to take fruit, at that moment, when we have given up of ourselves for God’s plans is when we truly find happiness.
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