(From Facebook)
Hi Everyone!
I’m just letting my friends know that Lent is around the weekend corner and I’m going off Facebook until Easter! For Catholics, this coming period is a time of prayer, reflection, fasting(part of the day on Fridays, totally exempting wine and spirits, because, well, you know…spirits?), spiritual immersion, kindness and love. I’m looking forward to this.
I wish everyone happiness, joy, rebirth, kind interactions, and much laughter during whatever celebrations you are enjoying.
(I can’t leave without a soapbox moment, tho’….)
This Lent, I’m trying to work on gratitude and love as an absence or expulsion of complaint and hate. Can I just put out there that Love is Love. hate is hate. When we use hate-filled words toward another(whatever that other may be or may be thought to be) we are feeding the chasm of hate. Whether it’s the Grocery or The Internet, we are speaking to one person at a time. If we broadcast something to the world, it is being read, heard, felt by one person at a time; a person with thoughts, feelings, experiences only they know. I’m just going to try to consider that person in my speech, writing, encounters. (Remember, I wrote that I’m going to try… 🙂 ). I just think that, well, as we come into this world we grasp one hand first in love, as we depart, I think it may well be the same way. Why are we not just doing this the rest of the time? Holding hands in love(even in disagreement!)? Speaking to many or one another with words we actually desire to feel reflected in the eyes of the other? It may be achingly difficult, but, you know what? It may turn out to be the easiest, happiest thing in the world!
Happy Winter into Spring Everyone! xoxoxoxoxoxo…
…in Bliss!
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