dog
Dogs are like babies.
They cry to tell us they’re hurt
but can’t tell us where.
Sometimes people are that way too. We can see or hear that they are in pain or distress
but they can’t tell others what is going on.
It takes effort and courage to ask what the problem is, and how we can help, and really mean it.
When we ask, “How are you doing?” and we hear,
“Terrible. I’m desperate, or sick, or lost.” how often is the response,
“Oh, that’s good. It sure is hot today.” ?
Didn’t they listen? Don’t they care? What’s going on?
Probably people care, but not if it takes away their time, or privacy or money.
That seems to be where caring stops. At the weather.
We tend to look at those above us and see that they have more,
and not below where they have less than even we do.
Is it our fear of falling?
“It could have been me.”
Courage gives us strength. Strength can give us hope.
Another thought-provoking piece from Seattle’s Haiku for Hearts. It takes strength and courage to discover a hurt but it also takes strength and courage to open your heart to the hurt. That applies to loved one with both four and two legs.
