 |
Add to My Group
Why "Good Will Toward Men" Has Become More of a Challenge for Me: My Christmas Thoughts
By Andrew Bard Schmookler (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
That and my confusion. For I've been having trouble integrating in my heart what I have experienced of people. (An alternative framing for that radio show was from a different angle:
Has anyone ever surprised you greatly by acting either much better or much worse than the person you thought them to be would act? Have you ever had an important experience of someone you thought basically good did something surprisingly bad? Or an experience where someone you'd written off as a bad person did something unexpectedly fine?
Have you ever struggled to understand the ways that people are mixtures of the good and the not-good?
Living in this fallen world takes a toll on all of us.)
And so for now I will try to regard my own current attitude itself with some compassion and patience-- even while I hope that I will heal enough to be able once again to become again more innocent in my heart, even without being naive.
Good will toward men. Not as an acquittal. More simply, as an act of love. For it is love, after all, that ultimately heals us and our world.
1 | 2
The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.
 Contact Author |
Contact Editor |
 View Authors' Articles |
by David Ray Griffin
$31.95
Lowest New Price $29.49
Number of pages: 339
Publisher: State University of New York Press
by Arvind Sharma
$17.95
Lowest New Price $3.98
Number of pages: 136
Publisher: World Wisdom
by Lee Bladon
$29.99
Lowest New Price $26.99
Number of pages: 308
Publisher: Lulu.com
by Harry Oldmeadow
$23.95
Lowest New Price $14.46
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: World Wisdom
| 4 comments |
Want to post your own comment on this Article? 
|
||||
|
||||||||||||||
Must Read (0) 
Well Said (0) 
News (0) 
Touching (0) 
Funny (0) 
Supported (0) 
Interesting (0) 
Inspiring (0) 
Valuable (0) Tell a Friend:
|
Copyright © 2002-2009, OpEdNews |
