"Think seven times seven before you discredit or move your neighbor's landmarks." But "Who is my neighbor?" a certain lawyer asked Jesus. To paraphrase, Jesus replied, "Anyone you encounter or for a selfish reason refuse to encounter."

Everyone has landmarks. One person may not quite be able to see what it is that another person sees. One person may never know personally how an event, an act, a circumstance, or a thing is experienced by another person. Even with compassion and empathy he may not be able to truly know what it is "to walk in another person's shoes." Sometimes when I recount or think about a particular life-changing event, and there are many that I experienced, I am compelled to rejoice, shed tears, that may be tears of joy, and give thanks to God for that some thing that happened at that time in my life.

In growing up, in the processes and challenges of life by which a person discovers meaning and its sometimes unfamthomable mysteries, there are established certain landmarks.They represent discoveries and revelations  that sometimes symbolize aha moments when a person became aware of the purpose of his life. They may be certain words or ideas that were spoken into the soul that resound thereof singing forever throughout a person's being as landmarks. Here, I could give a personal testimony of herculean proportion but I resist the temptation.

To know a person is not merely to know his name and some of his thoughts, to be acquainted with how he behaves or what he does. To know a person is to know somewhat of his landmarks and to give due respect to them. For these are his points of referral that stand out beyond and above all else in his life, guiding and directing him on his journey through life and beyond to a place where "eyes have not seen ears have not heard about and the heart has not imagined." These are the places where the Eternal has been caught and held for an aha moment in time and for a lifetime and beyond

Also let each individual resolve not to withhold, disown or try to hide his landmarks to please another person, to become politically correct or for any other reason. When a person disowns or hides his landmarks he disowns truth about himself, his uniqueness, discoveries and purpose in life. Cherish and honor your landmarks. They define you as few things can.

"Think seven times seven before you discredit or move your neighbor's landmarks or disown your own landmarks."

Copyright 2015 by Uriah J. Fields.

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