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Life is a Buffet
The Archangels Offer a Modern-Day Parable about Choices
The other day, a friend of mine told me about a friend of hers who was upset on behalf of her brother who worked for the government and who didn’t get paid as expected due to a hold put on the agency where he worked. She and her family were Trump supporters, and my friend shared with me that, although she didn’t come out and say it, internally, she thought to herself that it served them right for voting for the man who was elected president.
Honestly, the same thought crossed my mind, but I stopped and realized that that was faulty thinking. Instead of rejoicing in someone else’s suffering, I reminded myself that if my pension checks weren’t deposited, I’d be struggling, so how could I be happy that someone else was faced with such a problem? Who’s to say that the state of Texas won’t deny me my pension at some point? Heck, if they know my political practices, they might want to find a way to do just that! I was able to pause and find compassion for the man who didn’t receive the payday he’d counted on, and even though he voted for the man who was ultimately behind his missed paycheck, I hope the situation was rectified in some way quickly, and he and his family are okay. Nobody deserves to go through something like that, regardless of their voting history. It’s not right.
