One Day I Will Show You

One day I will show you. I will show you what I mean. I will show you all the things that you think divide us actually don’t. I will show that people are worth something. I will show you that this world is worth something. I will show you that love, kindness, forgiveness, and the use, acceptance, and pursuit of those things are worth something. I will show you that women are worth something. I will show you that education, common sense, intelligence, understanding and the use acceptance and pursuit of those things are worth something. I will show you that religion, faith, or the belief in something beyond the physical is worth something. I will show you that there is still good in this place and in people, and that that is worth a lot.

One day I will show you. I want to show you that the people you think are your enemies aren’t.  I want to show you that not everyone who says they are something means they are like everyone else. I want to show you that not everyone who is a Christian is like what you think they are. I want show you that not everyone who is a Christian is mean, judgmental or out to harm others. I want to show you that not everyone who says they are a Muslim is a terrorist, not everyone who says they are an atheist wants to kill babies, likes hittler or even knows what socialism is. I want to show you that every person is different. I want to show you that I am different. I want you to know I am not like anyone you could compare me too. I want you to be surprised by me. I want to change your mind for the better about what means to be a man, husband, friend, Christian, son, brother, and human being.

One day I will show you. I should have showed you more when we all were younger. Show you what it means to respect others with your words. Show you what it means to disagree but still find a way to say I love you, and actually mean it. I should have gone farther out of my way to respect you. To respect who you were, to respect who you are. I should have showed you how to truly forgive someone, how to decide that no matter what another person does to you, you have already decided to be at peace with it. I want to show you how to forgive that person that you won’t. I want to show you how to love that person differently than you have loved them before. I want to show you that maybe the relationship you had with them will never be like it was, and to be okay and at peace with that. I want to show you that no matter what has happened in the past, every sunrise brings a new day. I want to show you that no matter what you are carrying, there are those around you who want to help share the burden. I want to show you that we are not all heading for a dead end. I want to show you that hope still flies.

One day I will show you. I will show you that we can do better than this. We can do better than yesterday, and every day before that. I want to show you that there are so many of us who want to do, be and become better. Not just as individuals, but as a whole. As a family, friends, neighbors, and as humanity all together, so many of us believe we can be better than we have been. I want to show you that family is worth swallowing your pride for. I want to show you that the hurt you feel by the wrongs you have been dealt can be healed. I want show you that relationships need fixed, even if you are the only one patching the holes. I want to show you that sometimes the other person will let you down, won’t walk the mile with you, and won’t meet you halfway. Sometimes you will be the only one being and doing better. But even if you are the only one, that doesn’t mean you are alone. I want to show you that I will help you patch holes, lift you up, walk every mile with you, meet you well before half way and help you do better; even if the other person won’t. I want to show you that there are others who would say and do the same. I want to show you how we are all in the same boat, how very much alike we are.  I want to show you that we don’t have to be perfect to do what we are supposed to do. We don’t have to be perfect to love others wholly and completely. We don’t have to be perfect to forgive or be forgiven. We don’t have to believe others are perfect in order to love and be in communion/community with them. There is no bar we need to rise to in order to take care of, be with/around, or to have a relationship with others. I want show you that no matter what you think another person has done, I think they worth perfection. I think we all are worth perfection, even when we don’t show it and especially when we don’t deserve it.

One day I will show you. I will show you all the things I have mentioned and more. There are so many things I want to show you, so many things that I believe are worth so much. I just hope that as I show you these things, you will look.