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What is our nature?

In the middle of all the opinions, judgments and advice on this page, is it ever possible to end the finger-pointing, the blaming and the anger over so many circumstances in our lives, bitterness, the in-fighting over who’s right and wrong, and the endless accusations that have been the way we have responded since this world was created?

Instead, what would it take for humans to begin to question our own human nature and what lies within each of our hearts? I pose the question: Is our nature really kind, generous, benevolent, selfless, with an unbounded love toward all?

Perhaps a reflection inside to what you and I are trying to find in the moments of anger, hate, distrust, greed, lawlessness, self-gratification, control and all the degrees of darkness that we harbor? Perhaps the sage wisdom of C.S. Lewis from John Bunyan’s book, “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about human nature: “And what is this valley called? We call it now simply Wisdom’s Valley. But the oldest maps mark it as the Valley of Humiliation.”

Dennis Roach

Spokane



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