June 24: Writing Prompt #175-Morality Play

Where do your morals come from — your family? Your faith? Your philosophical worldview? How do you deal with those who don’t share them, or derive them from a different source?

My morals come from my family, my faith, and my worldview shaped by my experiences both within and outside of my family and faith. 

With those who don’t share my morals, I try to understand where they are coming from and why they have the morals (or don’t have morals) that they choose to live by.  Our experiences shape who we are and sometimes we don’t even know why we think certain ways until someone poses that question to us.  Others just don’t have the self-esteem, knowledge, guidance, or general purpose in life to care how they live and how it affects others.  Some do just what their parents or guardians or the world they were orphaned in taught them to do.  They couldn’t have chosen anything different if they wanted to because who would have shown them better? For those who don’t have morals, who chose to commit horrible atrocities on others, I pray for them. I pray that someone or something will come into their lives and show them a different way and love them back to health.  For those who have morals I don’t share, I simply try to show them the same love I would show those who grew up with and have the same faith I do.  It’s not my place to judge what or how they believe, but only to show them kindness and love. 

For those who have similar morals, but derive them from a different source, I try to learn from them and relate to them through my own beliefs.  A good person is a good person, and in my book, we all come from one maker anyway. He may be called by a different name in a different culture; some may even worship Him very differently, but He is still the same maker to me.   And once again, my job is to simply love them the same I would anyone else.  I wouldn’t want the job of being their judge. I’m happy to be tasked with simply making my best effort to treat others the same way I want to be treated.