People are people here. I don’t why they should be anything else, I guess-but I guess I always think when I go somewhere new that they’ll be completely different. but.they’re all still people. there are still homes here. Still dogs. Still little babies pressing their faces against windows to wave bye to their grandpas. People may do things differently, or speak in tongues that I’ve never heard in my life and could not even begin to try to understand, but they still smile, and you know you’re ok. One weekend, our abroad group traveled to Italy for a long weekend, and right away we all noticed the traffic. But this wasn’t your typical Highway 40 traffic or even LA traffic. I think that Italy’s notoriety for and their love for pasta has infiltrated into the way they drive. Their lanes aren’t what I’d call lanes. think spaghetti; there’s no organization, but somehow it all fit sin one bowl of a city, and they may wrap around each other and twist in and out, but they just work together to be the great pasta-traffic that they’re famous for!
Another weekend I traveled by myself to Holland. While there, I realized for the first time what going to a country without knowing a single word of the language must be like. Granted I was only there three days and thankfully there were people who spoke English along the way to help me, otherwise I might still be there wandering around! On the Sunday of that weekend, I traveled to Amsterdam for their church service, overlooking the fact that I still hadn’t learned Dutch well enough to understand the stories of the Bible or Mrs. Eddy’s science of Life J. However, whilst sitting there and listening to them say the Lord’s Prayer, or hearing the solo in Dutch, it was so intriguing to think that the Science of Mind has no language barrier! There is no idea that is confined to a certain language’s expression, or anyone who has “dibs” on one of God’s ideas.
Similarly, in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, there was a room where people could enter for the sole purpose of silent prayer. To sit down in that room with people from all around the world, glancing around and seeing nuns, and people from all different faiths, countries, and languages- all praying to their god(s) was such a powerful experience. It didn’t matter that we might believe in different theologies or leaders or religious practices, but we all prayed, and you could just feel the power of Good connecting us together in a completely unique way.
At first I thought traveling would bring me to the new and exotic. something a world away. but all I keep finding is more people that I look at and think, “Hey, we could be friends”-even when I traveled to a third-world country, where I encountered the biggest differences in living styles.the kids were the same bouncy, joyful people as there ever were-and I guess it’s comforting to see that God’s qualities, expressions may be in new places, but ever the same Love, the same Soul.I thought traveling would show me so much of a world I never knew-but all I’ve seen is a different view of the same Goodness that I’ve always known.
whos that handsome guy in the middle reaching for the sky!?
Hola Molly!!!
que tal? estoy bien! Life in Boston is fun and so much reading your blog!!! How fun!!
Love you, miss u and Namaste, Miguelito!!
“all I’ve seen is a different view of the same Goodness that I’ve always known” I love that idea! Travel really shows us how connected we already are.
In my traveling about the globe, I have loved seeing the evidence of one universal God, Love. Truly awesome experience: seeing the infinite ways to express the one Mind.
Happy travels!
Nice group of information. Marie, my ife and I are looking at the northern group of the Scandinavian countries via boat cruise. Any suggestions and do we need to be concerned with a language problem?
Possibly, the early fall before it gets cold.
Bill
hey i found that great, im about to mve with my family to india for 2 years! their hinfi fath is so strong all around the country i didn’t know how to go about it, until i read this article.i especially liked it when you said “People may do things differently, or speak in tongues that I’ve never heard in my life and could not even begin to try to understand, but they still smile, and you know you’re ok”
thanks alot molly