Your Second Response.

Our first response to a stimulus is what makes us human.

Our fear, anger, disappointment, or frustration are natural, and embedded in us from tens of thousands of years of evolution.

It’s not reasonable, fair, or healthy to expect us to suppress or deny our first response.

We should give ourselves (and others) permission to feel what are reasonable and natural reactions to the world.

We step back - for a millisecond, second, minute, hour, month - and allow ourselves to feel the first response.

Only then do we respond.

Our first response is what makes us human.

Our second response can lead us to the divine.