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The Hawk And The Rabbit.

15 Friday Jan 2016

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found on Pinterest on 11-27-15. Winter along the river-Bald eagles. By Persis Wiers. Wild Wings.

found on Pinterest on 11-27-15. Winter along the river-Bald eagles. By Persis Wiers. Wild Wings.

“No one knows,” said the hawk to the rabbit,

“where this river flows.

Just take a deep drink and wiggle your nose

And sharing becomes a habit.

I can tell you’re  scared, I’ll swallow you whole.

But take a risk today.

I’ve really changed my old way of acting.

Let’s take some time to play.”

The rabbit’s heart was beating so fast,

He thought he would die of fright.

He tried, and tried with all of his might

To forget the hawk of the past.

His mothers words came in to his mind,

“Be careful my precious one.

Old habits are hard to break, my son.

Just be friends and stay with your kind.”

“Oh, what a dilemma,” The rabbit said.

“I’d rather make a new friend.

Someone on whom I can depend

But will I end up dead?.”

“It’s risky I know to take a chance

And trust what is to come.

Others may think you’re really dumb,

But I can see in a  glance

You want to experience all of life.

And sit by friendship’s fire.

There’s nothing wrong with a desire

To live your days without strife,” said hawk.

So they drank together and talked a while..

They traveled to the river’s end.

They never regretted being a friend.

They were risk-takers with a smile.

Yu/stan/kema

 

Judging Seldom Makes Any One Feel Better.

28 Sunday Jun 2015

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Found on Pinterest on 6-4-15.

Found on Pinterest on 6-4-15. powerofpositivity.com.

All my life I was proud of the fact that I could accept people for who they really were. I never felt I had to convince someone to think the same way I did. I felt that people could be friendly and agree to disagree. For the most part, I allowed my son to be his own person. He was encouraged to think his own thoughts and develop his own values and beliefs. I did pray a lot that my teachings would steer him in the direction of having decent values, because I knew there would be fewer problems he would have to deal with. If he had integrated lying, stealing, cheating, and using other people for his own selfish gain into his value system, I knew things could get dicey for him. I am happy to report he formed a good value system.  I was also very accepting most of the time of my friends, and clients at work.

The only time I can recall having difficulty accepting some one just as they were was in the last several years. There was a big difference in age, values, ways of doing things, and accomplishing goals in a working relationship I had contracted for. Expectations were different for each of us. Because my success in meeting my goals was tied to the other person, I became driven to get the task accomplished. I was full of zeal and wanted to pass on information, skills to get the task done. I saw myself as being helpful but the other person saw it differently, that I was trying to change how she did her work, and I wasn’t allowing her to be herself. Needless to say things got dicey.

I grew from that relationship, but it was hard and stressful, and I should have been more patient, less driven. I should have been more flexible. I wasn’t the best person I could have been, but I do know I put a lot of time and energy into trying to make it work. I learned some unkind things about myself and some valuable lessons about the working relationship. It’s easy to make assumptions about someone else or judge a person without needed feedback. I wish I had known more about her as a person so I could have had a better understanding why certain things were important to her. I do know making any kind of judgement at all was not helpful.  I do want to work on accepting other people, as time goes on.

Found on Google+ on 6-13-15. Path to Holmes Beach. Rick Schwartz.

Found on Google+ on 6-13-15. Path to Holmes Beach. Rick Schwartz.

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The Kaleidoscope Of Acceptance. Part Three.

04 Monday May 2015

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found on Pinterest on 3-2-15.

found on Pinterest on 3-2-15. Written by Jamie Tworkowks

THE ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS

The Acceptance of Others is necessary for our very survival and our happiness. Back in the Stone Age, people learned the value of staying together as a group. It was easier to protect the clan, gather food, hunt animals, and fight off enemies. In our earlier years as children, our families played an important part in our survival by taking care of our necessities. If our families were unable to do this, then the community or government stepped in.

The meaning of acceptance, in the context of other people, means a positive welcome, a feeling of belonging, and approval. We normally get this from our families, friends, schools, churches, and other community groups. This does not happen for every one. Part of acceptance is being capable or worthy of being included. More often than not, people decide who belongs and who does not. The rules change all the time depending on the severity of the infractions, who the person is, and how much power, money or influence he has.

We, as human beings, have our greatest difficulties in learning how to accept other people who are different from us. The more differences we can see, the higher the possibility of exclusion. We also exclude people for mistakes they make or pain they inflict upon us. Jesus commands us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. He wants us to open our hearts to love and acceptance of others by allowing space for communication and understanding to take place so that compromise, forgiveness, and resolution becomes possible. We learn over time to either value the differences that exist through experiences we have with them, give it time so we can both grow, let it go and put it in God’s hands, or we exclude them.

Sharon L. Adler once said, ” Before you can live, a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, the opinions of others at that moment in time, or the outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally realize that truth, then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others.. From that point on, you will finally be free.”

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