Today you will walk out your door into a world teeming with people carrying wounds and worries you will never see. A great many of those people will be so kind of heart that they set aside their troubles long enough to nod or smile or say hello. A few will even help you in some way large or small.

But there will be some as well who won’t follow the rules of Please and Thank You and Have a Good Day. They will be grumpy and mean. They will do horrible things. They will make you mourn the state of things.

That’s why my advice to you is carry a Grace Cup of your own. Dip into it frequently and as needed. For others and for yourself. Because it is a hard business, this thing called living.

(~Billy Coffey)