Website owner: James Miller
We all affect others. None of us lives to himself. We all make some kind of impact on others. Life is a web. Each of us is connected to the rest of humanity. We are all part of a whole. What we do, how we conduct ourselves in life, the attitudes that we carry, our values --- all these things affect the whole. For good or for bad, we are all affecting others in the web, continually. We are constantly leaving an imprint. We deceive ourselves if we do not realize this. We constantly affect both those who know us intimately and those who know us casually. Life is a constant interaction between us and others. People are constantly responding to us and we are constantly responding to others. We are all constantly changing. How others impact on us influences how we change, in what directions. We are all learning, seeking, hoping, struggling. Other people are always having either a positive effect or a negative effect on us. They are helping us or they are hindering us. They are an example for good or an example for bad. They are giving us courage and strength or they are weakening us. What we are is always shining through to those around us. Those around us may admire us, look up to us, have a high regard for us. Or they may have a low regard for us. We may be a force for good or a force for evil. We may be propelled by a spirit of honesty, integrity, kindness and goodness and be a positive force on those about us. Or we may be propelled by a spirit of deceit, selfishness and badness and be a negative force on those about us. We may have the spirit of the living God, the spirit of all that is honest, decent and good, driving us or we may have the spirit of Satan, the spirit of all that is dishonest, selfish and bad, driving us. He whose spirit rules us is he to whom we belong. We all constantly exert our influence on the web of humanity about us. We are all important in this life. Even if we don't realize it. Important for good or for bad. Apr 1987
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