Knowing Why

There are always those people in life who will disagree with you, either morally, politically, the list goes on. If you have an opinion, there is someone out there with a differing opinion... So what do you do about it?

What makes the difference between having an opinion and having a belief is knowing why. If you don't know why you think something it's an opinion, and a rather poor one at that. If you know why and can explain it to someone you believe it and it becomes a belief.

Too many people these days fill their life on opinions that they create based on their parents or pastors, their presidents or celebrities. We admire someone so we think and agree with them, but we never stop to ask why. On the flip side, we dont like someone and so we disagree with then, but once again never stopping to ask why.

Unity only comes when we are willing to understand why someone else thinks what they do and give them that basic respect for their different thought process. We don't have to agree with everyone to get along with them. If we think unity comes with 100% cohesion of beliefs, look at the founding fathers. It was their disagreements thst created balance and created the country that we are today.

Ultimately, if we cannot find unity amid our differences of opinions we will never find unity. If we are not willing to understand why we believe what we believe and understand why others believe what they do, we can never have peace. If we fail to understand why we can never truly move past our petty disagreements on politics and persuade people of our positions. We cannot and will not move forward till we understand why.