It seems that I do a lot of thinking and writing around Easter time. Although the Greek Orthodox Church has just recently started lent and we will not celebrate Easter until May this year, most other Christian Denominations will be celebrating Easter on Sunday. Passover is also observed this weekend through April 2nd. The differences that separate all the cultures are so minor. There are more consistencies in history than inconsistencies, yet we tend to focus on what is different and we point our fingers and judge.
Why not observe another point of view? Will we be more enriched if we stopped broadcasting opinions and started to really listen to and understand our neighbors?
The more different someone is from us, the more we can learn from that person.
What if we accepted both who we are and who they are and there was no right way or wrong way.
This week there have been many controversies in the media. The economic downfall of the Cyprus banking system. The gay marriage rights are being challenged. News stories of shootings and legislation on gun control. Stealth bombers over S. Korea.
Will we ever learn to accept and care for each other? Or will we continue to kill, judge, restrict, accuse, persecute, offend, discriminate?
What have we learned from the above religious practices that we celebrate every year over a period of thousands of years? It doesn't seem that we have given it much thought other than to classify ourselves under a specific group.
I say these things and I myself need to be reminded of them. It is human nature to fall. It takes a lot of discipline to pick yourself up and try again.
Let us make it a practice to be more accepting of the world around us. If we show love, it may become contagious.
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