Do you agree with a thought? If you do, then you are likely to nod your head and feel good about life. What if you don't agree? We often feel unsettled and combative.
Why do you feel one way about a thing and someone else feels another way? You were raised by your parents. You went to your kind of church. You read the books that you read. That is why you agree or don't agree.
But what about those on the other side of an issue? What about them? Why did their parents teach them what they did? What did they learn at their church? Why? What books did they read?
There is much to learn from those with whom we disagree. Sometimes when we learn where they are coming from, when we walk in their moccasins, we have a very different opinion of their way of looking at things.
We may not change our opinions, we may not adopt their thinking, but we can often at least understand them, and it tends to make us a little more calm when we hear things with which we, at first glance, do not agree.
It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.
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