I know it's been a while since I've blogged, but felt motivated to do so today. As I was flying home from Orlando today, I found myself in a meditative moment. It was a time to see life from a different perspective--from a birds eye view, so to speak.
When looking down from my plane's oval window, I noticed that all of the houses look alike. No one person's house looked better or worse than their neighbors'. Flaws were not so apparent. The heavens are a great equalizer--we all look like little dots from up above. Race, religion, and politics mean nothing from that vantage point. All of the emotionally charged debates that are offspring of those subjects seemed to float away on the clouds below.
For me, the take away of the moment was that we tend to see issues as much bigger than they really are. None of us is better than anyone else. We're all rubbing along together trying to figure out how to get through this life the best way we can, and we need to support each other--not cast stones and drag each other down.
Sometimes we need some distance to put things in perspective.
