You were once

"Once upon a time......".  Fairy tales are known to start that way.  Just go back years in time when mom or dad would read to you at bedtime, or a few less years when perhaps you did the same with your kids.  Once upon a time.  Our lives, however, aren't fairy tales are they? 

When the time comes that we near the end of our time here on Mother Earth we will perhaps think of those times when we were once young, aged, striving, and weak and wrong.  In the meantime, this bit of wisdom from Guatama Buddah carries a message to all of us:

 

What I see in that message can all be boiled down to one lesson taught throughout our source of wisdom....the Bible, and that lesson is to love others unconditionally.  Don't we all too often forget what moments of tenderness meant to us when we were but kids?  And haven't we all perhaps seen sad examples of lack of compassion for the aged?  Surely we have all seen examples of intolerance with those weaker than us and those glaringly wrong.

 

In our striving to be better Christ followers, the number one thing we need to do is to love unconditionally, just as Jesus did throughout His life.  Not always easy is it?