"BIG ONES LOOK OUT FOR THE LITTLE ONES"
Last summer, my nephews, Chase and Dylan, were at a campground lake. Although the road between the campground and the lake was very quiet, we warned them to be extra careful while crossing. Chase assured Dylan that they would be safe. “Stay close to me,” he said to his three-year old cousin. “I’m five.”
Chase and Dylan
Big ones looking after the little ones is not limited to age or size. A young person who knows more about something than an older person or a small person with the tools to help a larger person do not belie this rule.
“Big ones” – however you wish to define someone in that respect – should always look out for the “little ones.”
"Whoever is the greatest should be the servant of the others."
Matthew 23:11
Tangentially related, Chase knows his numbers and that he is 5. He also recognizes the number 52 - my age. During a time together, I asked him, “Do you know why we are such good pals? It is because you are five ... and I am five too!”
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That number will change on January 20, 2009 and I would like to thank everyone who voted for Barack Obama in the swing states for the best present anyone could give me. The United States, for the past 100 years, has been "the big one who looks after the little one." That part, in the greater picture, never changed. What will change is that we will be the "good guys" again. I look forward to that.
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2 comments:
Well put. I know someone who actually voted against Obama because he was afraid of jinxing the outcome, having voted for losing presidential candidates for many years. Can you imagine how that person is feeling today?
Pretty damn good, I would say, knowing that although is not a superstitious person, he would still put himself to the ridicule of those who profess to love him so that the world would be a better place.
But that's just my conjecture. Leave us not consider that I voted for Ford ('76), John Anderson ('80), Reagan, I think - an anomaly ('84), Gore ('84), Perot ('92), Clinton ('96), and Nader (2000), my track record is clear. Six elections - two winners. So I can understand how someone who had a similar record might vote for the opposite candidate of his choice. Besides, he's in California; like his voted mattered!
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