“I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.”
―C.S. Lewis
What immediate evil do you try to tackle?
It can be tempting to honor those who have died in military service by glamorizing the cause that they served, giving meaning to grief by casting a rosy glow of heroism over the loss. But the lives lost were precious and beloved because who they were, regardless of the cause they served. Combatants on both sides, civilians, everyone who has died in military conflict deserves our mourning and our prayers for peace.
Who do you mourn this Memorial Day?
All of us earthly beings breathe the same air, bound by our very breath to the interdependent web. That seems kind of unfair, in that some of us contribute far more than others to the pollution of that air, and some suffer far more in consequence.
How do you do more than your share to make the world better for all?
Is the boy sharing with the monkey, or is the monkey sharing with the boy? Or is this simply a moment of two beings meeting, holding the possibility that they have something to offer each other without either knowing what exactly that might be?
What have you found in moments of meeting with a non-human being?
“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
―Victor Hugo
Why might it be more difficult to be just than to be good?
