Something Barrowed

I am not the smartest person on the planet and I know that. As a matter of fact all of the people that I consider friends are far smarter than I in some way or another, or mostly many ways. The below is from one such person in response to one of my blogs. What she has to say is very powerful, but how she says it is what is amazing to me...far beyond eloquent...enjoy.

Thank you again for getting this far with me.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen. ~Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

I agree. A high "moral code", or whatever name it is given, should be the standard of humans relating. Muffled under the vogue of acceptance .. this cheaper version of freedom appears to allow everything in a denied reality of bondage. If I stand for nothing, I fall for anything ... that's not freedom, it's chains of compliance. If each perspective maintains a reality in and of itself and I am to accept perspectives as individual truths, where as a communal body of individuals may we possibly relate without harm?

Morals, manners, human relationships are the outpouring of our inner lives. How and what I think about has direct correlation to whom and how I interact. If I think positively with gratitude for the people & gifts God has placed & will place in my path, then my actions and words will reflect. If my mind lingers on lewd fantasy, negative responses & darkness, again my actions and words will reflect. I wil not stand to be subject to bondage. Fall the walls of vain acceptance and stand up for what is uplifting, that is what is right. Bring back the moral code.

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"There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey ... something that can only be found through the help of the wilderness. I am looking for my heart." ~ John Eldredge Wild at Heart

Follow the winds that be, fly your kite, sail it high, let it lead, flitter by.
A search, a quest, unsettled yet certain ... run fast, run wild, run
Without baggage, worry free, it's all as it's supposed to be
Blocks of building, buildings demolished, closer now, beautifully polished