Dear jock:

What a delight to find your thread first thing this morning! What a great delight for me!

I enjoy your writing style, the first two lines are excellent in my view, very strong! The ending of the rectangle is like the last spice on an excellent dish, giving it the final sending. I like the strong verb endings of your short essay: Keep, make sure, stay, pray, be, be… Strive! Moving the reader forward with infusion of energy.

As to the content, I agree (I am adding my own thoughts to your writings) that being the owner of the complete truth is impossible and arrogant and delusional. The more I personally see of the truth, the more there is to know. Never will I know everything, and the more I know the more I know there is more and more to know. In certain things, I believe I am right, and actually I know I am right. These things are not open for re-evaluation. For example I know a child is born innocent, loving and lovable and I am not open to re-evaluate it.

I agree with keeping it simple. Heart over head, yes, but heart carries messages that head needs to consider so that head gets it right!

I like humble but humble to me does not and should not mean that I should be willing to give up what I know is true (example above) so to satisfy another person’s comfort in their delusion (example, same: if a person believes his child is born sinful and that sin should be spanked out or… talked out of the child).

Be the change you want to see in the world, strive for peace- yes, yes! Strive for peace but not at the cost of the self. Being authentically oneself, standing up for oneself is most important.

Excellent essay, thoroughly appreciated!

anita