It is hard for us human beings to focus on our wrongness; we are used to projecting it onto others.

When we do admit that we are constantly hurting other human beings, the reward is a bit of silence. It is a deep relief to admit that we inflict wounds as well as receive them.

Forget what you learned in Sunday school; that is not nearly enough to come to terms with life. For this, one needs a fierce honesty about how we treat other people. Never mind how they treat us. There is no justification for harming others. Ironically, when we harm them, we are also harming ourselves. And when we forgive other, we are also forgiven.

This Friday finds me in a very peaceful state and for no good reason. I will go to the grocery with Rob soon and then the rest of the day is for resting.

Rest is vital to us and it has no real value in society, for society is about draining ourselves in order to please or appease others.

Rest, for me, is to feel gratitude for a calm that comes over me when I have nothing to do but be. Being has nothing to do with society, for society is a false measure of everything. So-called good people may be doing good out of fear and guilt, for we are all complex.

Please appreciate yourself today for knowing that the truth is ever at hand, but only to those who want it.

Vicki Woodyard