"You know (crazy) Uncle Louie, through the military, a disadvantaged person can achieve equal standing and overcome the challenges of poverty and inequality...oh and please pass the potato salad"
Have you ever got into a heated family discussion, AKA argument and wondered, how can my sister, brother, crazy Uncle Louie ALL think this way? Maybe they were ALL adopted! During these emotional times it may be hard to take a deep breath and remember, let alone recite to ourselves the Saint Francis of Assisi prayer:
Lord, OH LORD, please help me not kill my idiot sister and slap her upside the head!
Actually I meant, "Lord make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek...To be understood as to understand, to be loved, as love..."