Tuesday morning

There's no shortage of things to hate, enemies to make, people to become a "them" to us. There's also no shortage of choices to choose the higher good, people to learn to understand and love, friends to make, "them" to include, good to find in one another if we choose to look. And really, at the end of your life, are you really gonna lie there and think, "I really wish I had found more enemies in life." "I really wish I could have had more hate in my life, more people to hate?" That then you would feel you could pass on from this life? That your purpose here was complete? So, why do we look for the worst now? Thank you to the people of Boston for opening up your lives to strangers and taking them in. And thank you to all the people that seek out common ground. And thank you to all the people who find reasons to love against the odds of the horrors of their own lives instead of revenge. And for the courage to heal the brokenness that might cause us to hate. And thank you for all those that bring hope, and beauty and understanding and joy and comfort and who make the stranger a little less strange.