Our religious brother on staff here at Andre House, Richard, always gives the reflection for Mass on Fridays. He always does such a great job of it, but this week he had a great one that I felt the need to share. Brother Richard always brings me back down to earth with his spiritual teaching and this week was no different.
We go through our daily lives here and we deal with a lot of crap. There are fights in the street, drug deals in our parking lot (the police tell us that there is now some ruthless Honduran syndicate operating in our area), and in general a lot of trouble. As I have noted, it is easy to get cynical when seeing the same people do the same foul things every day. But despite all of this, Brother Richard reminded us in his reflection that these people- the violent, the addicted, the despairing- they are all people before anything else and they deserve our love and attention because of that. Every human life is more than valuable, it is priceless. I myself easily loose sight of that fact, so to hear someone remind me of it helps a great deal.
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