Holiness and the Heart of Love
June 12, 2005 by Melody Laila
Filed under Columnists, Melody Laila
About three weeks ago as I sat at a party in Goa with some friends, I was happily busy clicking pictures… To my indignation, a waiter appeared at our table and asked me to take his picture. I was so taken aback by his brazenness (and not just a little annoyed) that first I pretended not to understand… “What?” I asked him. If I was being difficult, he didn’t make it easier, repeating himself quite plainly.
By this point I was pretty riled and wanted to ask him, “Why should I take your picture??” I just looked at him with this incredulous look on my face before my friend next to me, pulled the camera out of my hand, saying “Melody, just make him happy, take the picture…”
Now this story is all about my friend. In my own self-righteous Pharisee-esq way, I consider myself “more holy” than he is. Yet my friend, who hasn’t had a personal experience of God, who doesn’t read the Bible, who doesn’t even make it for Mass every Sunday reacted with more love than I did.
