Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Apr 10 2009
Infrastructure
Whoever was responsible for cutting the underground fiber-optic cables is without compassion, is without common sense, is without scruples. This is true regardless of what their motives were in the sabotage. If someone they love, if they love anyone at all, had been unable to call for medical help yesterday and had died, the vandal(s) would have ultimately been at fault. Now that their misdeeds have had time to sink into their mind this morning, I hope they realize that. They can't take back what they did. There are important conversations that couldn't happen because of their actions. It's on their heads.
The same is true of any of us who "cut off" other people in our quest to be right, to protect our position, to prove ourselves superior. We can try to make amends in some other area of life, but we can never restore those moments that are lost because of cavalier attitudes in judging others.
People may be doing the same thing spiritually in relationships with one another all the time. Of course, there's more to communication than pure infrastruture, but when infrastructure is cut off, there's no chance for further growth or amends or healing. The one you have a dispute with might have been willing to stay in there to grow and learn with you. You have cut them off and you may even be feeling pretty superior about that. But what then will you be praying if you pray The Lord's Prayer in that state of mind, asking God to deal with you the same way you have dealt with others in your own life?
posted at: 06:50 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
Whoever was responsible for cutting the underground fiber-optic cables is without compassion, is without common sense, is without scruples. This is true regardless of what their motives were in the sabotage. If someone they love, if they love anyone at all, had been unable to call for medical help yesterday and had died, the vandal(s) would have ultimately been at fault. Now that their misdeeds have had time to sink into their mind this morning, I hope they realize that. They can't take back what they did. There are important conversations that couldn't happen because of their actions. It's on their heads.
The same is true of any of us who "cut off" other people in our quest to be right, to protect our position, to prove ourselves superior. We can try to make amends in some other area of life, but we can never restore those moments that are lost because of cavalier attitudes in judging others.
People may be doing the same thing spiritually in relationships with one another all the time. Of course, there's more to communication than pure infrastruture, but when infrastructure is cut off, there's no chance for further growth or amends or healing. The one you have a dispute with might have been willing to stay in there to grow and learn with you. You have cut them off and you may even be feeling pretty superior about that. But what then will you be praying if you pray The Lord's Prayer in that state of mind, asking God to deal with you the same way you have dealt with others in your own life?
posted at: 06:50 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
