The beginning of the week is the perfect time to take a quiet moment and immerse oneself in the magnificence of our universe. Sitting under a Sea Grape tree delivers just the right mindset for a Monday afternoon. Once I nestled in, I began thinking about human decency and what it means to live by those standards.
This is a story about decency. Simply put, most of us want to be better, want to deepen our ways of spiritual living, degree by degree. There is evidence of the significant rewards to be realized for human kindness.
Merriam-Webster defines decency as ‘…being marked by moral integrity, kindness & goodwill…’ I like to think of myself and others around me as being forward-thinking decent folks, but I believe we need to go deeper than just our immediate circle of contacts. We are living in difficult times. Decency, it seems, is only arms-length deep. Yet, indecent behavior is on the rise. The absence of honesty, goodwill and thoughtfulness has become commonplace thus causing the spiritual state of humanity to decline. I believe that if we open our eyes and our hearts that we can change the course we, as a humans, are on and move back toward decorum, kindness and niceness as a norm.
Now, I do not expect to unravel these monumental issues we face as I sit in quiet contemplation this Monday afternoon in the shade of a tree, but I do hope to open up the minds and hearts of others so that more respectable behavior can abound.
My prescription ~ live small but see big.