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Can We Love Those Different Than Us

If we had to love people who were the same as us
We could love no one 
My identical twin looks like me
But we share almost no ideas
We laugh the same, it is a funny laugh
Distinctive, and we move the same
But we do not agree on politics or religion
We each have our own mind
This does not mean we cannot love each other

If you could not love someone who thought differently
You could love no one
Even if you polled everyone at the same church
They would have different ideas
The trick is to listen to everyone
Not to think like them, but to like them more
By understanding where they are coming from
You do not have to come from the same place to love them
My identical twin and I are proof of this.

We love each other immensely
And agree on practically nothing
Except that we do love each other immensely

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Kim Rodrigues Date: 5/30/2020 4:56:00 PM Very nicely said, my friend! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/30/2020 11:14:00 PM Thank you Kim. I just had to throw this one down.

Ilene Bauer Date: 5/30/2020 3:19:00 PM so perfectly expressed, caren! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/30/2020 11:14:00 PM Thank you Ilene. I am glad you stopped by.

Maurice Rigoler Date: 5/30/2020 9:47:00 AM Jesus said it best: What great thing have you done if you love only those that love you? I'm paraphrasing. (Matt.5:46). As for my poem on the bronze rabbit, it's a sculpture in our local park done by a local artist. That's all I know about it. Thanks for the stop by. / M Login to Reply

Jeanne Mcgee Date: 5/30/2020 8:35:00 AM Oh,, these words, written eloquently, are so much truth, so powerful, so apt for our times...especially this week of unrest. thank you. Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/30/2020 11:15:00 PM Thank you Jeanne. I am staying out of trouble though and I believe you are too.

Anil Deo Date: 5/30/2020 7:40:00 AM How powerfully and wonderfully beautiful! Caren, I hope this makes POTD. It is marvelous and touches us in the innermost being (& biographical as twins, you disagree on politics AND RELIGION, yet LOVE immensely). ThX Caren; wow! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/30/2020 11:16:00 PM Thank you so much my friend. My twin and I are supposedly "identical" and yet we spent 4.5 hours once trying to agree on matching t-shirts that we would both wear a second time. She wanted hearts and flowers and butterflies and I wanted Rosie the Riveter and Wonder Woman.