Removing Error

"Pray not that sinners may perish, but that the sin itself may disappear." The Talmud

Are you like me, in that sometimes, I wish certain people would disappear from my life?  We all have troublesome people in our lives, and many teachings tell us that it is these very people who are our greatest teachers.  Rather than pray that terrorists or that pesky person in our life disappears, isn't it better to pray that hatred disappears from the earth?  It is astonishing the evil things that people have done because of hatred.  If there is only fear and love, then, surely, hatred must be based in fear.  Fear of the unknown, fear of what is different from what we believe, fear of the other as different from us.  With caregiving we can become confused between the disease and the person.  My loved one is at his essence a remarkably kind and dependable person, but that is not always what I see within the disease process.  Let us separate the disease from the essence of the person, so that this error may disappear.