Sometimes it is Hard to Know

Sometimes it is hard to know. 

To know if you are on the right side of things.  You want to be a good person, you see yourself as a good person, but you want to be sure what you think and feel is the right way to think and feel.

Especially when there are those you love who think and feel so differently.  You love them, but you can’t be on opposite sides and both be on the right side, can you?  How would that work?  You see a movie you just love, or a song that touches your heart, or some beauty that brings tears to your eyes and peace to your soul, and you want everyone you care for to see it as you do, hear it as you do, feel it as you do.  When they laugh, frown, shrug, or scorn you are hurt.  Deeply.  How can they miss it?  How can they not see it?  You love them.  If they do not love what you love can they love you?

Sometimes it is hard to know.

This is how I know.  

Does your love include or exclude?  Is it only for some or is it for everyone?  Does it help you to hurt others, or hurt you to not help others?  Does your love promote, advance, and support all around you, or does your love insult, put down, belittle or use some around you?  Does what you love and hold dear advance all humans and all humanity, or does what you love and hold dear sort and select some humans who are worthy of what you love and deny other humans what you love? 

What I shall love, what I will know is the right side of things, will be those things I love that I use to promote all others.  I use to apply to all others.  I use to include all others.  I use to support all others. 

If those things I love are used to exclude some, hurt some, demean some, abandon some, deny some, blame some, and deprive some then I will know I am on the wrong side of things.  I am not following what my heart knows to be true.  I am living in fear and anger and selfishness and desirous of wealth at the expense of the poor and power at the expense of the powerless.  These things are not the right things.

When beauty touches the heart it does so differently for each heart.  When truth touches the heart, it does so for every heart.  Walk in truth, love your beauty and you will be on the right side of things.

Then you will know.