How many ways are there to be a good person? An infinite number of paths,,I would imagine. I fall off mine quite often...

But in raising my children, I have learned many lessens about patience, tolerance and acceptance. They, like me, have each searched for their path and if I had directed them to mine,,they may have missed theirs...All I had the right to be was an example,,for good and bad on which theme(s) might best serve them in this life...

It is the same for me when I watch those who have found their key to heaven. I believe there are as many keys as there are keyholders. It hurts me somewhere deep inside when someone tells me that their key is the only key for I have found my key unlocks the door too...

But I am relieved and in awe of one who holds their key to their heart and walks with the quiet assurance of their souls immortality which breeds Faith, Joy and Love to all those about them.

It is always the arrogance that turns me away for I have learned somewhere along the way that the greatest teachers offer no answers but teach us to ask the right questions...It is curiosity that brings us closer to the Truth,,not satisfaction.

But my ego is not even attached to this perspective as I know with no doubt, that if I keep asking, looking and listening,,,I will see it differently again and the key which I held to open "the" door only opened my way into a new place with new doors...

IMHO.

Lenny