Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. – Paramahansa Yogananda
America has been kind of a mess lately. There is so much anger and resentment, that it makes me want to cry. People fighting about politics, about statues, about skin color. It seems to be open season on our police officers and African American young men. The right hates the left and the left 
hates the right and they all think they know what’s best. Honestly, it’s so sad, and it’s made me ashamed to call myself an American. Well this weekend, something happened. Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, and it’s been horrible. Cities and towns are completely flooded. I’ve seen such horrible things on the news – people huddled on the roofs of their homes hoping to be saved, people who have lost everything, and people who have lost their lives. It’s a tragedy. But amidst this tragedy, something amazing is happening. People are coming together and working together to help one another. I’ve seen people forming human chains to pull someone out of rushing water. Young men in canoes, and row boats paddling up to homes to rescue stranded people, and an entire apartment building full of people working together to get a woman in labor out of the apartment and to the hospital. News crews are abandoning their stories to help people and the police, fire fighters and National Guard are working overtime to rescue people when they don’t even know if their own families are safe. This is what America is people, and this is what it should be all the time. Not just in times of crisis, but ALL THE TIME! I’m not amazed that so many people are working together to help one another, but what does amaze me is that we can’t do this all the time. We’re being kind to one another right now, and it’s doing a lot to bring our nation together. Let’s expand upon that and bring our world together as well.
