Dear Friends,
Take a moment to consider this thought...
'When I meet someone, I most connect with, value, and respect their:'
a. profession
b. religion
c. income
d. family
e. gender
f. native language
g. area of town they live in
h. color of their skin
i. style
j. personhood
While all of the above factors contribute to how we connect and empathize with others, only. j.-personhood provides for universal respect and appreciation toward another human being.
We each reach personal peaks in various, areas of our lives at unique times. To judge others--or ourselves--based on any single or even, combination of characteristics or events usually, means abandoning the 'whole' picture in lieu of a smaller, compartmentalized, and limiting frame.
While this can be a helpful, attribute for analysis or evaluation in circumstances like a 6 month job review, a meeting with a teacher, or even a self-help quiz in a magazine the only, assurance of treating others with dignity and equivalently, being treated with dignity by others, is to embrace the whole person as a unique, miraculous, divine being.
As we watch the frames captured by the media in Haiti, let's remember to look beyond the camera lens of tragedy and chaos in an effort to connect with the truest spirit and personhood of that divine being.
Similarly, next time you look in the mirror, try smiling and saying to yourself, 'I AM a unique, miraculous, divine, *WHOLE* being!'
Peace, Love & Healing,
~Jennifer
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Please, keep up the wonderful, sustainable giving to Haiti!
Many, incredible & diverse organizations and opportunities to give to!
List of Organizations to Help Heal Haiti
http://creolewoman.blogspot.com/2010/01/help-heal-haiti.htm
List of Organizations to Help Heal Haiti's Women
http://creolewoman.blogspot.com/2010/01/help-heal-haitis-women.html
