When is it enough? when do you just accept a kind gesture and let the rest go?
You’re probably wondering what I’m talking about..we’ll get to that but:
Did you ever do something nice for a stranger only to have that stranger be critical of the good deed?(that it wasn’t correct and they asked for you to correct) this deed was also done for others exactly the same.
When you were growing up did any of your elders tell you it is impolite to correct a person who misspeaks or gifts you something that’s not quite what you wanted- that it’s about ‘the thought that matters’?
This thread is about the ‘Crossman’..the person who makes the crosses since
Columbine and a request he received that left me speechless.
He recently put the original crosses in Aurora’s back for the 19th anniversary on 4/20, along with Parklands out of respect of the newness of another killing, when when I couldn’t help but to notice the five that were different.
Yes..a grieving Parkland parent had called this man to complain that their child’s cross should be a Star of David.
I can see he made them quickly by the scrawled names..I’m saddened that this kind gesture was obscured by the pained parent not understanding that this wasn’t about separation but about togetherness..and in making that request that is exactly what that parent did.
You’re probably wondering what I’m talking about..we’ll get to that but:
Did you ever do something nice for a stranger only to have that stranger be critical of the good deed?(that it wasn’t correct and they asked for you to correct) this deed was also done for others exactly the same.
When you were growing up did any of your elders tell you it is impolite to correct a person who misspeaks or gifts you something that’s not quite what you wanted- that it’s about ‘the thought that matters’?
This thread is about the ‘Crossman’..the person who makes the crosses since
Columbine and a request he received that left me speechless.
He recently put the original crosses in Aurora’s back for the 19th anniversary on 4/20, along with Parklands out of respect of the newness of another killing, when when I couldn’t help but to notice the five that were different.
Yes..a grieving Parkland parent had called this man to complain that their child’s cross should be a Star of David.
I can see he made them quickly by the scrawled names..I’m saddened that this kind gesture was obscured by the pained parent not understanding that this wasn’t about separation but about togetherness..and in making that request that is exactly what that parent did.
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