Opinions, convictions and facts

 Each one of us is entitled to hold dear an opinion about anything in the world, or out of the world. But, to make it a conviction and speak to everyone as if so is a very foolish modus operandi. 

I remember Fr Marco narrating the incident of the tennis commentator recieving a said number of letters from his bearers after a particular match. There were talks and media gossip about him being partial to one of the two players. Until he revealed in an interview that half of the letters he received accused him of being partial to one and the remaining half accused him of being partial to the other player. So he naturally took pride in his job and used this very incident of disrespect to prove his competency.

Opinions, facts and convictions!! Easy to have the first, in gallore. Hard to sift through facts and verify opinions and give up most of the opinions. Takes guts to grow deeper in convictions, all the while being open to review them.