Dear fellow travelers,
Thank you for being you and
Welcome to a
new day!
The morning after...........................the election that
is!!!
What a winning strategy the winning party had!!
Listening to one
strategists, she said, "If a young person votes for the
same party twice
they are set for the rest of their lives"
Well, also a quote.....There are
lies, damn lies and statistics!!
As for me I did change political
affiliations somewhere along my way, I
have changed husbands, houses and
careers.
What I don't want to change are my family, my long term friends.
And as
my good qualities, (we all have them) I want to enhance them
more. And
yes,change the ones that aren't serving me now.
But our
country or what I see of as our country is that it is changing, to
me for
the better,
Not too long ago, I remember someone of one Christian faith
wasn't to
date someone of another....let alone marry out of the
faith.
Gays and there preferences were hidden away.
Women were not to
work, or just be secretaries, teachers or nurses, a
few did manage to
walk their own path in others levels.
Most blacks were also not to work
above a certain level.
And when a Catholic was running for president, it
was feared the Pope
would run the country......
And now the lines
are more blurred..A good thing to me.
Four more years of a Black president,
Not only are religious and interracial marriages happening, but gays are
in most states allowed civil unions!!!! Women are CEO's and world
leaders!! Who would have thought even 30 years ago.
Change does
happen. We are becoming a more harmonious, oneness society,
a society
willing to accept difference. See beyond the form!
A society which is
willing to change attitudes and willing to grow to the
oneness I think we
all are.. for me, a good thing. A really great thing...
We are really an
example for the world.
Its a brand new day. I choose to live it, not
exist in it, learn
something I haven't known before and Yes, maybe even
change another opinion.
What have you changed?
What are you
willing to change?
Just Pondering on change
Linda Patton RScP
ENTC
http://Ponderings-everday-spirituality
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Ponderings #32
Dear fellow
travelers,
Thanks again for
being who you are!!
In all honesty I
had had two yin and yang weeks. A lot of good (then everything is good, when we
look closely at it) and then those challenges.
It seemed like I
had information coming from many directions that I allowed to upset me and take
me off my center.
I had to go back to
most of my tools that I had learned over the years to really be able "to
change my thoughts", to get back to the peace and calm that I aspire to.
I wrote gratitude
lists of the wonders around me and the wonderful experiences I had had over the
same time period. That really helped. There was so much to be grateful for!!!
The things I
observed about me during those last few weeks, is that I allowed myself to be
abrupt, and agitated with other people. Not a good thing for me to do.
Then I remembered,
something we all know, that when other people are acting and being in the same
way, maybe not as kind as we would like them to be, and they are allowing
themselves not to have a great day; then this is when I need to be kinder to
them instead of letting them push my buttons-- they may need more kindness not
less.
This is an
opportunity for me to show caring, no one really knows what is going on behind
the masks we sometimes allow ourselves to wear.
I also allowed
myself to find out, that when I really was letting my humanness come forth in
not great ways, my good friends loved me anyway. Wow, imagine that!!
And guess what,
hills do follow valleys!!!
I just needed to
turn all my not so great imaginations and thoughts over to the"higher
power", get myself out of the way, and to center on peace again.
Fall is beautiful,
people are beautiful, we all are beautiful, even when we allow and maybe because we allow, our flaws to
come forth to be looked at and changed.
We are all in
process, never ending evolution, and its all good. I just always need to
remember that and focus on the good.
Just Pondering on
being human
Linda Patton RScP
ENTC
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