In order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. Not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. You cannot grow if you keep pretending you're innocent in the story you've created.
The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.
And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before.
If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from Father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early, you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.
Saw this & thought I'd repost.
Israel has canceled the visa of Lynn Hastings, the Head of the United Nations humanitarian operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Israel has targeted and killed over 80 journalists and their families…
Israel doesn’t want the world to witness their War Crimes in Gaza or have them documented by the United Nations 🇺🇳
Every person killed in Gaza has a name, a face and a story.
I voted for a ceasefire to put a stop to this endless loss of precious life.
It is a disgrace that so many MPs ignored the voices of Palestinians imploring them to do the same.
Learning about this years ago was what completely disabused me from the notion that Israel was meant to be a safe haven for Jewish people. It’s a sham and nobody knows that better than the Holocaust survivors living in enforced poverty under the modern state of Israel.