I am grateful for understanding :
When a world of pain and sadness is all that I can see
I need only look to the innocence of our children
to restore my faith in humanity…
And grateful for remembering…
All children are accepting and generous and loving
all begin life with kindness in their eyes.
They know nothing of hatred,
hostility
and prejudice
until we teach them otherwise.
May we blessed to remember…
It’s up to us introduce our children to love and family
to nature…to the the wonder of imagination…and books
And help them to discover magic…everywhere they look…
But when we introduce them to hatred, war and prejudice,
destroy their families…their homes…their nature…ban their books
when we make survival the only purpose of their day…
What are they to do…
when we’ve taken all the magic away?
I love to watch a parent smile…love to vicariously feel their joy
when they point to the tiny newborn they created
and proudly say…That’s my baby boy.
Likewise…I love to watch a parent smile…
as if they’ve just uncovered a priceless pearl
and love to hear them proudly say…That’s my baby girl.
And no matter how old their child grows…
I love to be there to absorb their joy…
when they look at their grown child and say
He’ll always be my baby girl
She’ll always be my baby boy.
Even if they’re from different countries
speaking different languages…using different names….
when any parent talks about their baby…
the joy we feel is the same.
For no matter when or where or how
their lives together may unfurl…
they will always be their baby boy…
always be their baby girl.
I love when a parent smiles and says
when their child realizes they are L G B T or Q
I love you…whoever you know you are
and you’re still my baby too.
There is so much that is wrong with the world today…
so many things that needs to be saved…
so many behaviors and beliefs that need to be reversed…
I wonder if the best place to begin to turn this all around…
Is to remember the love all parents have for their children…
and make a pledge…
to save our babies first.
I am grateful for all the kind people
who have touched my life…
who’ve helped to change the way I see…
who have played a part in creating
the person I’ve come to be.
Before we touch another person’s life
A question to keep in mind…
Is it fingerprints of kindness
of fingerprints of cruelty
We want to leave behind.
In that moment before we're about to touch another life
when deciding whether to be cruel… or kind
here a little something we need to keep in mind…
Think of all we both will gain
when it’s kindness we are choosing
Or…
when it comes to selecting cruelty,
think of all we’ll both be losing.
If there is one lesson our life experience has taught
when we think we’re only touching one life…
there’s a good chance…we are not…
Because when we touch one life…we never really know
how far the ripples of our kindness
or our cruelty will go…
So, in that moment before we’re about to touch another life
whether it is kindness or cruelty we clutch
may we take that moment and think of all the other lives
our kindness or our cruelty may touch.
When I look out on the world…
in the midst of all the malice,
enmity and sorrow that we find…
I am grateful to those
who despite the most difficult conditions
continue to have
the courage to be kind.
