Podcast — No higher calling

It don’t come easy.

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Decades ago, I came to believe that there is no higher calling, no nobler goal that anyone can aspire to, than to merely be a decent human being.

To be honest, to be loving, to be giving and forgiving; to be kind; to be industrious or diligent; there is really no more that anyone can ask of a person, than that.

To be faithful to one’s partner; to walk one’s talk, whatever that talk may be.

It doesn’t happen by chance.  It doesn’t happen by luck.  A person has to make the choice, again and again and again.

It don’t come easy.

Every day, we are beset, some of us more than others, by distractions and irritations and insults that tempt us to not be honest or loving.

And sometimes we give in to those temptations.  I know I fail, somehow, sometime, almost every day.

But I still maintain that hope, that goal.  There is a need to forgive oneself for one’s failures; to accept forgiveness and grace from God.

And persevere.

It does get easier, the more these desires become habitual.

Ringo Starr, “It don’t come easy”