Simple Faith of Mister Rogers

As a kid I remember the thrill of driving around on Nantucket with family and being shown….the driveway of Mister Roger’s Nantucket home!!! I have always held a fondness for him, as most people have.

I just finished reading “The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers” and loved the glimpse into his life. At the end of his life the author had a chance to ask him what he would say if he had one final broadcast to address his television neighbors and tell them the most important lesson of his life… love this quote.

“Well, I would want those who were listening somehow to know that they had unique value, that there isn’t anybody in the whole world exactly like them and that there never has been and there never will be.
And that they are loved by the Person who created them, in a unique way. If they could know that and really know it and have that behind their eyes, they could look with those eyes on their neighbor and realize, “My neighbor has unique value too; there’s never been anybody in the whole world like my neighbor, and there never will be.” If they could value that person – if they could love that person – in ways that we know that the Eternal loves us, then I would be very grateful. “ – Mister Rogers