I love my grandma. She is 90 years old and was raised a Baptist through and through. I was talking with her today and she was telling me that she had watched a lot of the coverage of the Pope’s visit to the U.S. She said that she felt like she learned a lot by watching it and that she also learned that some things she had grown up believing about Catholics weren’t true. She also added that she hoped that one day the churches would unify more. I love that someone who has lived such a long life and has seen the world go through so many changes could also learn to be more accepting of a group of people that, as a child, she was not allowed to speak to. If a person who has believed something for 90 years can open her heart and mind to a different way of thinking, then I think everyone else could be a little more tolerant as well.
You Can ALWAYS Learn Something New
Monday, April 21, 2008
Amen! Can’t we all just get along??