The story is told of a dialogue between a rooster and a bat. It was just before dawn and the Rooster was all excited preparing to "cook-a-doodle-do". He noticed that the bat seemed equally excited to welcome the dawn as she was flapping her wings in excitement.
The rooster looked inquisitively at the bat and said, "I really get why I am excited by the rising sun and the new day that is before me with all the fun that life has but why are you excited about the dawn?" The bat looked him in the eye, which as you know is not an eye to eye moment but perhaps it is, and said "because life is not just about me!"
Imagine a world in which we appreciate all the differences in creation, in which we are excited not just for our selves and what we like but for others and what they like as well, and in which it is not just about me!
Paul suggests that we equally care for our "self interests" while also "caring of the interests of others".
The bat, who lives in darkness and does not see like you an I, sees more clearly the balance and harmony that is achieved when in humility we see others as clearly and appreciatively as we see ourselves.
About Me
- Don Paine
- I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.
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