Differences

Five days a week I get an inspirational and motivating message from www.tut.com. Each day I am empowered and reminded that my limits are endless and most importantly I am loved by spirit. I don’t think I have deleted any of the emails I have received. I save them all to a file and peruse them from time to time. The most current message I received prompted this entry. Age and I hope wisdom have called on me to evaluate my personal thought processes. We are all products of our upbringing and most of us blindly accept what our parents taught us as gospel. I was especially guilty of that. I just accepted whatever my parent’s feelings were about most subjects. My mother was a very strong Italian presence. It was her way or the highway. But it was also due to the fact that my mother was sick. Empathy most likely made me more sympathetic to her feelings and I absorbed them like a sponge. Emotions ebbed and flowed in our house and when they were high, it was intense. I am not proud of some of the things I agreed with them about. I know I hurt some family members’ feelings and for that I am truly sorry. It wasn’t until after my parents died that I worked on myself. With therapy and my husband’s help I began to explore myself and what I thought about things. Tut’s message reflected my feelings on current day religious doctrines. If the doctrine excludes anyone for any reason, is it worth celebrating? Shouldn’t we all be accepted for the way God made us? If we are all reflections of God, how can we reject someone because of their differences, religious, cultural or lifestyle? Accepting differences doesn’t mean we have to fully embrace the other person into our lives, it just means we need to respect them. Current day doctrines have caused me to shy away from organized worship. I tease my family that I am attending the church of “me” and that I like the sermons much better!
Be yourself. Listen to yourself. Love yourself.