Wednesday; June 25
Who is the enemy? Have you noticed how easy it is to develop an “us vs. them” mentality. I think the origins of this type of adversarial mindset is based on broad categories like “capitalists vs. communists” or “believers vs. nonbelievers”. Yet, the more effort we put into this divisiveness the few of “us” there really are. We begin to trim away those who don’t believe exactly the way we do and the more “they” there are. Pretty soon, if we aren’t careful, the “us” becomes “me” and we find ourselves opposed to anything, everything and, most damaging, anyone. What would happen if we spent more time finding our common traits (and building on them) than we do trying to uncover the flaws and failures of others? I am not saying that we have to accept anything and everything others advocate, but I also don’t think we need to view them as the enemy. We may not be friends, but that doesn’t mean that they are foes either. Amazing things can happen w...