Understanding Our Impact on Neighbours

Every time we speak or act we have an impact. Learning to understand our impact on others helps us to become people who make a positive difference for individuals, peers, work colleagues and the community. As we consider this fortnight’s thread of neigbourhood boundaries we are reflecting on our impact as neighbours to everyone we meet in every context.  Part of understanding our impact is to have a strong sense of self awareness and a focus on understanding and supporting the needs of others. As part of the Pacific community, we encourage all members to be respectful and actively enhance the dignity of themselves and others. We grow to respond thoughtfully and to consider the impact of our action or words.  We understand the power of kindness and thoughtfulness to transform.

All of us have elements of the good wolf and bad wolf within us. As the story goes, the wolf that grows most is the one we feed. God’s invitation and command to love God with all our heart and our neighbour as ourselves provides a rich centre from which all of our interactions and decisions can flow. Part of God’s love for us is to offer forgiveness. As forgiven people we also forgive. Empowered through God’s grace and love we have the opportunity to pause, recentre and bring hope and possibility into our hearts, interactions and into the lives of our neighbours.