One sentence.
That’s it.
Today, we’re going to go with just one sentence.
Want to guess what it is?
It is true that the Intramuralist has a special fondness for the following:
- “Just do it.”
- “Let your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes’ and your ‘no’ mean ‘no.’ ”
- “Fire up!”
- “Give me a second sentence.”
- And, both “Who dey!” and “Boiler up!” (… go easy on me, please).
But today, after watching two weeks of conventions (yes, I watch them both) and being succumbed to the succeeding rants and raves on social media… watching people praise one candidate and tear town the other…
Watching the perceived increased racial tension and lack of respect for law enforcement…
And basically, watching the world go round, seemingly digressing in its polarized, intolerant state — an intolerance that exists on all sides because the one thing they aren’t tolerant of, is any legitimacy of the other side…
Watching all that, one sentence by a friend stood out to me this week. They said:
“We deny others their perspective because it does not match what we believe to be true.”
Let me say that again…
“We deny others their perspective because it does not match what we believe to be true.”
Whether we are left, right, or somewhere in between, we deny the legitimacy in another’s perspective because it does not match our own. We equate our opinion with wisdom and truth — and dismiss another as something lesser.
Friends, that dismissal is dividing our country, zapping our unity, and keeping us from loving all people well.
Whether our approach comes from the left or the right, we must quit denying what we cannot see.
Respectfully…
AR