Is this a question that you’ve heard before?  Before we go on to the subject, would you answer the question?  Now that you did, the answer is yes and no.  And both are right, so it’s kind of fun not to fail but you could also fail in both, yes and no.

The first yes:
We have proven through society beyond any doubt that we are our bother’s keeper.  The proof is, the prison system, the wars of domination, ruling over the minds of others, taking away their freedom, any form of removing freedom from anyone makes you be their forcible keeper.

Now, am I my brother’s keep in the other way?  We’ll ask you again: are you?  Do you look after your brother and sister, as you should?  Or do you have good reasons not to?  But if you do, is there a measure of your being a keeper of your brother?  The reason we ask this question now is that to be one’s keeper, is to make freedom available to that one, by the example of your love and trust, one learns of the gift that you bring in caring, but marvels at the trust that you give in teaching how they could become brother’s keeper too, perhaps to their own family.

Unlike a prison guard that trains a new recruit to do the same, but it is good to recruit someone to teach them a form of parenting in being our brother’s keeper.  Because taking care of your brother is being a father or a mother to that one.  You must provide the same love.

We will now simplify this for you, since being our brother’s keeper appears to be a complicated thing.  Perhaps that’s why we don’t.  But as we seek from others love and caring, therefore we know what we’re looking for, so we have no excuse not to offer the same. 

Being my brother’s keeper is economical because if you teach a man how to fish, you won’t have to provide fish always, but you cannot teach him how to fish to get rid of him, because then you are no help, but then perhaps one day, he will provide for you what you could no longer provide for yourself.  Then you’d be happy that you taught him how you loved him that he now does for you.

I am my brother’s keeper, you that reads, because I love you.  And as I love you, love others in the same way.  And then you will find so many keepers of others, of which you would be one yourself and then it would be turned into looking after each other, instead of keeper.

I like it, so welcome aboard, my big brother.  Let’s make it happen, wherever you go and we’ll do the same.  Thank you for reading.

Roger Poisson