After praying about the hostility in our country regarding the presidential election I went to sleep. Then I woke up during the night with these words in my mind:
“I am only one,
But I am one.
I can not do everything
But I can do something.
What I can do, I ought to do
And what I ought to do,
I shall do.”
(This morning I googled them and found out they’re a paraphrase of words by Edward Everett Hale.)
Okay, that was clearly an answer to my prayer, so I went back to sleep.
When it was nearly time to get up I awoke again and wondered, “What is the something I can do?” Then I went back to sleep again.
When the alarm rang and I got up I realized what I can, and ought to do, is write things that will help bring us together again, so I’m trying to do that here and now.
We can disagree without anger and hatred. Each side believes the other is morally wrong, but being wrong is not the same as being evil.
I’ve mentioned before the definition of love I learned in a college class:” when the happiness and well-being of another is essential to one’s own happiness and well-being a state of love exists.”
Whatever the outcome of political decisions to come, some people will not be happy with them, but we can still want what is best for each other. And even if we don’t all love one another, we can find ways to live together peacefully.
Please, please, please let’s try to do that.
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