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Saturday, February 26, 2005

Assigning Weight
At my back fence are two tropical bushes of some kind that flowers year round. One bears gigantic pink flowers; the other is white. These flowers, except in the worst of January, cover the bushes. They are so beautiful as to seem unreal.
Across the street from my house are two apartment buildings full of the worst specimens of humanity you might imagine. Year round they broadcast ugliness, stupidity, and hatefulness on a daily basis. They are so awful as to seem unreal.
Now, supposing I were able to put those people on one side of a balance beam scale and the flower bushes on the other side, and supposing the scale were to measure real and lasting impact...not weight. Which would 'mass out' more heavily? I suspect that this involves a decision on the part of anyone affected. All of which reminds me of verses in the Bible, Philippians 4:8...Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy- think on these things....and the God of all peace will be with you. For my own peace of mind, I must concentrate more on the flowers than on the human flotsam across the street. I must choose to assign greater weight to the flowers.


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Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 1:42 PM

Name: Tessa

I won't tell you to ignore the human flotsam because that would mean the end of your wonderfully descriptive narratives about life on your street! Thank God for the marvellous and exquisite things in life; for the flowers and the trees; for the birds and their songs; for music and for art, to name a few! Without those, life would be a dull existence indeed.

However, that doesn't make it any easier for you to live in a 'war zone' so close to the 'enemy'! Unfortunately, it does seem that these human rejects have fallen prey to the two greatest evils in human society: the abuse of alcohol and the abuse of drugs. These two things gnaw ceaselessly at their humanity, create poverty, and are the perfect breeding ground for violence and crime. For their children, such an environment makes it nigh impossible for them to live normal lives or to climb out of the abyss dug by their parents. Sadly, they were probably born addicts and, because they were in all probability starved of oxygen whilst in the womb, without the intelligence which could and should have been their heritage. How and why do people fall into the trap of alcolhol and drug addiction? Perhaps, one day, society will find a cure for this canker.

In the meantime, enjoy your garden - it sounds peaceful and beautiful - an oasis in a barren desert.

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