Thank YOU for yours too.
This last comment of yours rings so true. We had to keep reminding ourselves that we were in a foreign country, with a different political system (king) and a WHOLE set of different values.
In reality, those five years over there taught me MOST about myself, what was important in life, to me and how I wanted to live my life.
It made me a better person, and thanks to my Saudi boss, I began to attend DAILY Mass OVER THERE and continue as I write. Whodda EVER thunk that I would be attending DAILY MASS thanks to my Saudi Muslim boss?
Does God ever work in mysterious ways or what?
Sure does.
I don’t think it’s necessarily bad that people have different value systems. In fact, it’s part of the rich pattern of diversity the multicultis pretend to (but don’t really) believe in.
I do object, however, to people whose most deeply held values require them to oppress, enslave or kill me or mine. They need to modify those values or we’re going to go round and round, as my Dad used to say.