During the Holiday season, I hear so very often people feeling despair due to their family having fractured connections, money being less than needs and nothing near what presents might require, real life not resembling anything close to television glitter or facebook stellar moments.
Please remember you have both family of blood and a family of the heart. When one is cracked or broken, the other is there to love, sustain, and care. Holidays, regardless of which religion to which you belong or you abstain, are there to celebrate the miracles of life in all the myriad possibilities it has. And that which is illusion will never anchor you when challenges arise. Instead, that which is real will serve as your foundation to build something that echoes through the ages.
You each are real. You each matter. And to everyone who breathes - there are connections which bind you into the tapestry that makes life. Celebrate that which you have, that of which you dream, and the family you have chosen to make within this world.
My Holiday Wish is this:
May each of you find yourself to be enough;
May each of you find the courage to step outside whatever box has been placed around you in order that you find what your potential truly is;
May each of you find peace in your life and love within the connections you have to others.
Be kind to yourselves and to each other.
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Friday, May 3, 2013
My thoughts on marriage, civil unions and civil rights
My thoughts on marriage, civil unions and civil rights - May 2012
Romney and Obama have taken their stances on same-sex marriage. I thought I might throw my opinion into the ring as well.
It is irrelevant.
Marriage should be nothing more and nothing less than a religious ceremony, and is the provenance of each flavor of religion.
HOWEVER, civil unions are a matter of government and of rights. I personally think ALL marriages should be grandfathered in as civil unions and that all future pairings for combining income and seeking tax status, benefits, etc. should fall under civil union law.
Further, I believe that just as there are multiple forms of business unions (partnerships, corporations, etc.) that civil unions between CONSENTING ADULTS should be legal... Civil Unions should be part and parcel of the CIVIL RIGHTS accepted and protected by the government - and open to all people, regardless of gender or sexual orientation (still prohibiting child abuse, however)... And yes, I am fine with more than two people joining in a union.
HOWEVER, I also believe that civil unions should have significant consequences to dissolve. So, if we split the government rights from the religious ceremony - then both Romney and Obama have taken stances which are ultimately irrelevant
Sunday's Prayer 8-29-10
Sunday's Prayer 8-29-10
God grant me the wisdom to know there is time for all things necessary,
Regardless of my personal concept of schedules and clocks
God grant me the patience to be the person you want me to be.
I need all the help with this that I can get!
God grant me the strength to overcome my own anxieties
That I can be effective in doing the work you have planned for me
And above all else, God,
Lend me your grace as I move through this day which you have made.
Amen.
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