2019 … Even for those “in Authority”
Even though the walking was extremely difficult for these last 40 days, and even though more than most of the people I encountered then had no interest whatsoever in me or my peaceful message, I was regularly reminded that there is great Goodness within the Souls of all my fellow humans – and this, regardless of whether they were rule-bound by their university employers or law-bound by their police uniforms or dogma-bound by their religious obligations …
“Today I bent what I thought was correct to be kind instead. And I have no regrets over the same, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is Right … We would all do well to remember that what we’ve done becomes the judge of what we’re going to do. And then we would all do far better to remember that what others think of us or our past or our person is and should be completely irrelevant to any and all choices of word or deed. Of course, when we’re traveling, we are what we are right there and then. People don’t have our past to hold against us. There are no yesterdays on the road, no yesteryears for any pilgrim. This goes for those met while walking, as much as it does for the pilgrims doing the treading … Would that we would treat each other each day exactly the same; intentionally forgetting who a person once was or what they did or didn’t do or say or believe, and instead simply Love them right then and there as if we had only met them in that very moment.” ~ inspired by Robert Brault, William Least Heat moon & Criss Jami
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