Now, I cannot verify the truth of this story. But, the idea so moved me that I wanted to share it with you.
How an African Tribe Deals with Crimes: Source – by We Must Know
I was recently told of an African tribe that does the most beautiful thing.
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the center of town, and the entire tribe comes and surrounds him. For two days they’ll tell the man every good thing he has ever done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as GOOD, each of us desiring safety, love, peace, happiness.
But sometimes in the pursuit of those things people make mistakes. The community sees misdeeds as a cry for help.
They band together for the sake of their fellow man to hold him up, to reconnect him with his true Nature, to remind him who he really is, until he fully remembers the truth from which he’d temporarily been disconnected:
“I AM GOOD”.
I don’t know about you, but I tend to dwell on all of my mistakes, wrongs, miscalculations, just plain goofs made over the years. Wouldn’t it be nice to be reminded of the good instead? Like the example above, I would venture to say the good most certainly outweighs the bad.
Is your tribe reminding you of all of the good you ARE and have DONE? If not, perhaps you have surrounded yourself with the wrong tribe. After all, what God creates IS GOOD!