Greetings Dear Reader,
Recently I spent a number of days walking all day. On the second to last day my feet got wet due
to a short rainstorm. By the end of the
day I had a very large blister on one foot and a blood blister on the
other. I also had another day of walking
to do.
By the end of that day’s walking the large blister had burst
and the blood blister had swollen.
Walking was difficult. The socks
I had on needed to be discarded. Thanks
to my Daughter, my Brother, and my Sister-In-Law I got the care I needed for
them to heal.
It reminded me of a time when I had another injury and the
response from those who were supposed to care for me was to chide me for
getting hurt. It became about the delay
I was causing and the cost of my care instead of my broken bones.
One of the dangers of broken roads is that we take damage as
we travel. It is the responsibility of
fellow travelers to care for each other.
It is my obligation not to shoot the wounded. It is my duty to help them up, walk with
them, and help tend to their hurts where I can.
The damage others take is the opportunity to show love and
compassion. Instead too many of those
who claim to follow see the damage in others as the opportunity to judge and
condemn. Condemnation of others is such
a broken road. It is marked with injury
and harm. It is in the pain that we can
see the we are all on the same journey.
If we go down the broken road of judgment, then we do more damage to
ourselves and others.
When others suffer it is my place to avoid the broken road
and take the narrow one. I must take the
narrow road of love and kindness. When
we care for each other the travel is so much easier. The road is so much smoother.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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