Ask NOT what your country can do for you...

There should be no religion in our government. The people who govern may be religious, but that should not sway their decisions. As well, lawmakers should not run on the premise of morals and faith. Though we want them to lead and live by example and be strong in their faith, we should want from them not to judge others by what they do and enact policies that are FAIR to all. There is so much more that we can do as a nation.. We can speak up, we can act out, we can find an audience. but it must start in the home first, community second, and government last. The people we have the ability to touch are the closest to us. When we start small, we can achieve great things. Goddess
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Ceeelooooooooooo Whyyyyy? do y'all think he's "Crazy" now?

my initial reaction on NYE… cee-lo green messed up some lyrics. the world may actually end tomorrow. maybe he did an Xtina moment and flubbed the lyrics. anthems sometimes draw so much charged energy that you can’t help but flub the lyrics. this is a guy who, at some point in his recent resurgence as a pop icon, stood on a stage dressed as a star wars cast member singing about how we think his ass is crazy! all i could believe was that he made a mistake. i was sitting at my SIL’s that night when he came on and what she said stuck with me…

“I hope he practiced”

well… cee-lo changed a word in the Lennon song “Imagine” and i can only believe that Yoko rolled over in her sarcophagus on new year’s eve. folks are mad because what was deduced versus what he actually meant to say didn’t mesh. He meant no harm. ahem, and i quote,

“Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys!”

i was married to a devout Lennon worshiper (and i am not saying that lightly), and i couldn’t even think of a joke about the man without the fear of having to scrape my soul off the floor after the tongue lashing i would have received. i still believe that sometimes you have to change the culture to change the Culture (emphasis added. dissertation to be submitted later). the huge idea of religion being a little something for everyone is what might lead one to believe that we need no organized religion at all. i would like to believe that is what mr. lennon meant. if we all had a perfect religion, we would have billions of little churches set up. * cee-lo decided that a slight grammatical change might change the Culture. gotta start small man. next time, baby steps although i know what you meant. rodney kind got a load of crap and people still tease about his simple statement too…

“can’t we all just get along?”

Can the Lennon’s legions be accepting? probably not in this lifetime, but i think my man Cee-Lo is gonna be just fine. Goddess *this is all my own opinion, so it may be true or not. similar to how religion might work better for all as truth on an individual level. Watch it for yourself
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Santa Who?

i'm busted!

my son has been bugging me over the past week about Santa...
he keeps coming at me with "what is Santa really?"

i danced around it long enough.

i explained to him that Santa is an idea. a fantastic idea that some parents use to convince their children to behave through the year. it seems easier to please a person who is larger than life than to please your parents sometimes. i told him that Santa is just like the imaginary friends that he has. while he is playing with them, they are real to him.
i told him that he can still believe in Santa. he just has to understand that the gifts do come from mom and dad mostly. i had to explain to him that it is the spirit of chirstmas that keeps the idea and concept of Santa alive.
i didn't bring up the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairie, or the Sandman or anyone else in the land of make believe. he took my answer. i did express to him that it was very important not to share the information because it would break the hearts of the other
kids who truly believe that santa is real. i told him that Christmas will not change. gifts will still be addressed from Santa. that is how we celebrate christmas with Santa.
i also asked my son what the real reason why celebrate christmas is. he knew it was about Mary and Joseph and Jesus. i explained to him that Jesus was a very important person in our lives because he gave the ultimate sacrifice to save us all. i let him know that God was very upset with us because we were not following the rules and behaving like sensible people should. and that God gave us 2 more chances. he would send his Son to remind us how we were supposed to act. when we didn't listen to his Son, God decided that he had to sacrifice his only son to help us understand just how precious life is and how important it is to listen to and learn about the right way to behave and live.
i said that Jesus was a very important guy and that what better way to celebrate his birthday than to share the concept of the gift that he gave to us by giving gifts to other in remembrance of what he did.
somehow, i see this all coming back to hit me in the face, but i couldn't keep dodging the subject. he really wanted to know and he was okay with my explanation.

life goes on

people

people
who are people to me?
they do not define who i am.
what is most important to me is my faith in the Lord and His undying love for me.
i thought about a lot of things that are going on in my life and i came to a conclusion that most of my pain is brought on by my dependence on people.
for acceptance
for criticism
for advice
for devotion
for love
for relatively everything that i have defined myself.

i have to keep in mind and hold strong that the most faith i have in me is based on my faith in God and the peace of mind that it gives me knowing that no matter how people hurt me or judge me or criticize me or validate me or reciprocate for me. the most important is God.

God first
then everyone else will fall in line where they should be.

gracie

insight ad nauseum

What i am starting to learn about people is that they are not what we see on the outside. What people are is any immense mix of many circumstances and many events and other people and past lives. Things that we have never experienced. We can never trick or fool ourselves into believing that we know on on person 100%. That is not to say that we should have trust in on on person.
Faith in on on higher being or on on higher power is what speaks the truth about wether or not we are willing to accept everything as always being on on part of something else.

The world looks on on little different to me since this past week and all of the things that have been going on. I am very proud of taking the time to learn from others that everything is not as it seems.

I am currently reading (listening to) "how to see yourself as you really are" by HH the Dalai Lama.
We must try to live our lives as if there will always be something more to come and make corrections for our next time around (if you believe that) or just for this (if you believe that).

Our religious beliefs teach us all about how we should live and ho we should treat each other. If we are taught kindness and love, acceptance, forgiveness, and altruism from the start, i am sure the world would be on on better place.

What we cannot lose sight of is that there is always room for change. We have millions of chances to make it right.

The right time is now to make those changes and corrections. We must first look inside for the answer.

Love,

Gracie

religion

just because religion is not attached, does not make it wrong.

you may have God floating around in you.
it is not necessarily something that you want to share, but you know it is in YOU.

we were taught the differences between right and wrong. all of those teachings are based in the bible. just because they are taught without the namesake God, Jesus,Christ, Lord., does not make them wrong.

granted, there is a deeper meaning and understanding when you look at it from the standpoint of what the lesson is or of the mere fact that we were loved so much that we have been given all of our chances to learn the most important lesson in life.

hell,
even E.T. the extraterrestrial said it best "Beeeeeeeeeeee Gooooooooooood!"

ya know?

g