A long, long time ago, in a small village, everyone worked, and everyone had what they needed. When a neighbor fell on hard times\u2014maybe they got injured or just couldn\u2019t work anymore\u2014the village pulled together. No one questioned it. Helping each other wasn\u2019t a debate or a policy\u2014it was just what people did. That was community. That was love in motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But then one day, the king rolled into town. He saw that the people had enough to share and figured, \u201cIf they have extra, they can give more to me.\u201d And just like that, everyone fell on hard times. Suddenly, everyone had less. And as they struggled to get by, they started resenting the very people they used to help. Not because they stopped caring, but because the system made it such that they couldn\u2019t afford to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And maybe the lesson here isn\u2019t about kings or taxes, but about not forgetting who we are. We\u2019ve always been at our best when we take care of each other\u2014not because we\u2019re told to, but because we want<\/em> to. That spirit is still in us. We just have to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A long, long time ago, in a small village, everyone worked, and everyone had what they needed. When a neighbor fell on hard times\u2014maybe they got injured or just couldn\u2019t work anymore\u2014the village pulled together. No one questioned it. Helping each other wasn\u2019t a debate or a policy\u2014it was just what people did. That was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[126,27,527,101,50,391],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth-drops","tag-compassion","tag-kindness","tag-parables","tag-philosophy","tag-spirituality","tag-truth-drops"],"yoast_head":"\n