GOOD ADVICE

Jesus said, “A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another.”   (John 13:34)

“Tuesdays with Morrie” is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz. In it Albom quotes Schwartz as saying, “There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.”

Good advice. But I think the same could be said about relations in general. We seem to have “a lot of trouble” these days because we don’t respect others, because we don’t know how to compromise, because we don’t talk openly about our differences, and because we don’t have a common set of values. That’s true in marriages, in families, in churches, in communities, in government, in the country, and in the world.

-- David T. Wilkinson


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