Peering in the Viewing Window...

As I was laying in bed the other night I was thinking about how prejudice the world is today. America houses people from everywhere, Ireland, England, India, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico, Africa, & the list could go on & on from continents to small towns of places we may never have heard of before. And as I am contemplating how a lot of us try not to be prejudice in some small way we still are. Even is we catch ourselves in the act & correct our thought, we still had the thought & we were ready to judge.

We all know the look when we we are being judged whether it be from the way we are dressed, to the color of our skin, to the person we choose to love, or the part of the city we get lost in. We have all been there in those situations that can be very uncomfortable to downright scary.

As I am tossing this thought around another idea popped in my mind....

Have you ever seen the faces of family & friends who come to look at us in the hospital when we are born in the baby viewing window? There is an ocean of babies, black, white, tan, brown, but not one thought of prejudice overcomes the person peering in no matter what their background may be. There is just an overwhelming feeling of love & happiness that is shared for all of life. This may be the one time in our lives that we can say when we peer in at others not like ourselves we feel no prejudice at all. Even after you have found the baby you came to see before you leave you still glaze over the sea of babies getting one last glimpse as it completes the moment.

Why I wonder do we change? How could that little baby twenties years later be a target of our prejudice? Was it the color of his/her skin? Was it the way the person was dressed? The company they keep? or where they live? Why can't we in one brief moment of having that prejudice thought think to ourselves that we all are still peering in that viewing window. We may not be as cute & cuddly as we use to, we may have our own baggage we carry that has molded & shaped into who we are, but we are still those same little babies that came into the world, a life so precious, all of us equal, & for a brief moment shared the same space without prejudice.

At what point in time did I change???

Let's peer into that viewing window together & start anew...