My hubby is an appliance service technician with 30 years experience but when he has been in a few homes over the last few weeks to repair appliances and the customers are polled about their customer service experience it is not the level of experience they received from him for repairing their appliance that they comment on, but the fact that he smells like smoke. Yes, my hubby is a smoker. Yes, he is trying very hard to quit. He doesn't smoke in their home or in his company van but he does smoke.
Because of some of the personal issues and trials that I have had over the last month it was brought to my attention that it might be because of my choice of reading material or my likes and comments on Facebook.
Now this started me thinking....why are people like this? Hubby was told it was because we live in an area that is intolerant of his habit. Really?! I was raised in this area and I was taught to be tolerant, kind, loving and accepting of others. It was something that I taught my three children. It doesn't matter what someone believes or how they choose to live we need to be kind, tolerant and accepting. It doesn't mean we have to agree with them or like their choices. Not everyone has to believe in or live the way we do. What good comes to anyone when you are judgmental and unkind?
I think this world would be a much better place if we could all be tolerant of people and just love and accept them for who they are. It is the differences in each other that makes us special and adds color and variety to this world. How boring and bland it would be if we were all the same.
Sadly, it is those people who believe themselves to be morally upright who are guilty of this the most--and strangely, too, because the very Book they proclaim to uphold tells them, in no uncertain terms, "to judge not, that ye be not judged". All we can do, in the face of intolerance is to be tolerant; in the face of judgment, to be non-judgmental; and in the face of hate to love. We have to acknowledge others' right to make their choices, as we stick, with faith and patience, with our own.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Morgan