Love your neighbor as yourself

Sometimes I find myself at odds with the world. The world has become a place so full of hate and discontent.

Back east, people kill each other for being a different religion. Two religions that preach peace and tolerance, but will go to extreme measure to kill the other one. Does that make sense? How do you declare holy war on someone in the name of a book who says, be patient, be tolerant, seek peace. I mean how different is it really from racism. Black, White, Brown, Yellow, wanting to kill each other for their physical differences. Religions wanting to kill each other for how they believe. They claim to be such a moral society. Moral by whose standards? I think alot of good would come if they would stop, and pray to their respective Gods and seek peace of mind for themselves and forgiveness for others.

Whatever happened to those days, where a person's barn burned down, everyone would pitch in to help them build a new one? Are we so wrapped up in our own needs, that we can't see the needs of others? These times are some of the toughest people have faced since the great depression. Joblessness and divorce are on the rise. It seems that instead of turning to the people we love, we want to just walk away. That to me is a disturbing trend.

We as a people have become so selfish, so blind to what is around us, we've lost sight of what is important. I don't claim to know what is important, I have weaknesses as everyone does. I fall short of my ideal standards, but that doesn't stop me from trying to better myself.

Let us all take a moment, take a deep breath, take stock in what we do have, get our perspective, then perhaps we can act as we should.