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Help Us to Remember Help us to remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day, that she is rushing home to cook dinner and help with homework, to do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children. Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who takes forever at the checkout stand, is a worried 19-year-old college student,who is balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester. Remind us that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares. Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive. Let us show patience, empathy and love. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Remind us each day that of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. |