Religion, glass, sunlight

"There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example to people. We have among us 475 souls - 30 families are Catholics and the rest are all Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs—all different religions. But they all come to our prayers." - Mother Teresa.

Divisions, separations, divides, segregation, discrimination - all ways and methods of secluding people one from another. Yet, when we look at one of the most spiritual people of our time, Mother Teresa's advice is not that one is above others or that one is better than her or his neighbor. Instead, it is one of compassion and love for all, to all, regardless of any religious, gender, racial, professional, or other affiliation. Her constant message has been love for all and the above excerpt, I think, gives a good glimpse of her attitude towards living.

Onto other matters - the shrapnel/glass that once was a great consumer of my time has now disappeared - magically. However, I worry it'll be back, taking from Marcy Davis: "Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves." I feel somewhat cheated, actually. I was hoping that I'll be able to remove it somehow and have a great feeling of accomplishment. Instead, it magically disappeared! Can't complain that I have my time back, though.

Daylight savings time - it now gets dark at 5:30pm - unfair. I really don't think I could live in Alaska, certainly not during the winter. I can bearly endure less than 11 hours of daylight, how would 15 hours of darkness go by! Although living in Anchorage would be somewhat interesting:

- Hi, I'm Tom!
- Nice to meet you, I'm ...
- As in like a ship and this city?
- Yes, somewhat, kinda, perhaps, maybe...

That's all for now; so long!