TOLERANCE
“Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand
another’s beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily sharing
or accepting them.”
–Joshua Liebman
Today I am able to tolerate people, listen to what they are saying and
if I do not agree with them, it is okay! I do not have to agree with a
person to tolerate or befriend him.
This is a new attitude for me and is part of my spiritual program.
When I was drinking, I would not listen to people who had ideas
different to mine. I would not tolerate people who had a different
philosophy on life. Other religions were discounted as being cultish,
crude or superstitious. I have learned that my disease of alcoholism
made me very arrogant and narrow in my attitude to life – I rejected
two-thirds of the world as being heretical!
Today I can tolerate and learn from people who view God, the world
and morality differently from me. Spirituality is teaching me to be
open and accepting.
Lord, may I find traces of Your love in different philosophies and
religions.
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