Holidays are the worst for me. Today is the day after Thanksgiving. I really do not like the term Black Friday (but I do not want to get into that today).
The Ten Commandments were given to us during the time of Moses, a long time before Jesus came along. The way I understand it, Jesus came along at the time He did to help us better understand God. One thing Jesus told us is that the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind. And second to this is to love your neighbor as yourself. Everything else is supposed to depend on these two things.
But back to Thanksgiving Day. Here is the deal for me. Every one of us on this planet is different. Each person has good and bad in them. Every person is unique. I am so very thankful for anyone who can accept what is different about others, who can remain open to the possibility of good in each of us, who can love unconditionally. That's what our life as human beings means to me.
The way I see the world today though, far too few people understand and practice this. It seems as if over my lifetime more and more people take offense at the smallest infraction, take far too many issues the wrong way, are much too quick to become angry. There appears to be so much hate in this world. It is NOT supposed to be this way.
