2015.11.21 Opening our heart to the refugees

[Bring4th_Austin]

Thank you for sharing Nicholas. I think that's another key point to this dynamic. My heart is so saddened to think about how refugees and immigrants feel when they witness the rhetoric from closed-border nationalists. There is such a sense of rejection and uncaring from that culture, no matter how well-intentioned it can be.

Imagine how powerful a message it sends to say, "Yes, you seem to be different, you have a different culture, you may have different values, you come from a different land and you look different - but we welcome you and want to help you anyways."

Not every single refugee will be moved by such sentiment - in the dog analogy, not every dog with behavior problems can be cured by love and kind attention alone - but such sentiment creates an environment of healing and love which can be extremely transformational for everyone involved.


(I really can't help but feel more than a little uncomfortable in using the analogy of dogs to refugees, but I do think there is truth in the similarity of the dynamics, at least when it concerns the open heart.)