DIVIDED OR UNITED ~ WHICH ONE IS OUR FUTURE?
One of my favorite stories is about an old mystic who would go out behind his hermitage every day to sit by the stream and meditate. On one occasion, he noticed a scorpion struggling to climb a large rock. Slowly and gently, he reached down to help the scorpion. However, the scorpion recoiled and stung the old mystic. He rubbed his hand and tried to help the scorpion once more. Once again, he was stung. One more time the old man reached down to assist the scorpion and, you guessed it, he was stung violently. A young man was watching the mystic with great interest and some concern and after the third strike, the youth ran toward the old man and said, "Why don't you pick up that rock and kill that thing!" The mystic responded, "Because it is in this creature's nature to inflict harm, does not mean that I have to change my nature to be like it." Today, our country is more divided than any other time in history. Why? We have cha...