Nekyia's Threshold

subject:
I Only Want to Give Love - HELP ME, HELP YOU.
post date:
2007-08-11 09:24:06
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A customer at work asked if they could ask me a personal question. I said, "Sure." Aren't most of my blogs deeply personal? Why do I open myself up as I do? Because I don't think I'm unique. I think that anything I feel or think has been felt and thought before. Maybe if somebody reads what I write it will make them feel less alone. Maybe it will give them a new path to travel.I've covered this topic before, but I guess I'll do it again. People live in fear. Tremendous amounts of fear. Some of the questions a typical fearful person thinks are :"What will OTHER people think?""Am I doing the RIGHT thing?""What if I fail?"Some people get so overwhelmed by these questions that they turn them inside out and start judging other people because its just too scary to allow anything but their own ideas to flourish. Even though mostly these people do not have their OWN ideas, they have ideas that have been force fed to them. Back to the question I was asked. "Are you a wiccan?"Huh, and what exactly would lead a person to ask this of a complete stranger? Is it my cute little ceramic frog that reminds me of the hidden potential of others? Is it my fake flowers that reminds me that, though I am trapped in a place of manmade materials, God's world is just outside the steel and glass? Or could it be the fact that I wear all the colors in the world on my nails in the form of black nail polish occassionally? Is it because I talk about the beauty of the moon and stars? Is it because I know about the power of ritual, as do so many priests and priestesses in countless religions? What IS it?What I am is a child of God. The C.O.G. that God intended we all should be. I will not judge another's method of worship. Maybe you worship with the help of a whole host of Saints to call out to. Maybe you shake a rattle and drive yourself into communion with God through hypnotic movements. Maybe you hold a living conversation with an entity that you feel guides your every decision. There are so many cultures in this world, and they all have viable pathways to the Creator.I'll support you in your gayness, in your agnosticism, in your atheism, in your nature worship. To me its all viable parts of God. We get to THINK. I welcome all thinkers. I might challenge you to explain your reasoning, or faith. And no, I didn't grow up this way. I was given rote and ritual. I just have chosen to really consider all the possibilities. It makes me stronger, and more truly faith filled than some Sunday Go To Meeting crowd follower.The world is changing. Its getting smaller all the time. We're going to have to learn to tolerate others. Or annihilate them. I do not want to be part of the slaughter. Don't cover up hate and intolerance with claims of superiority and "rightness". In the end you're just seeding the ground with landmines that are going to blow up, or make the landscape impossible to traverse. And yes, I try to become better every day, and I do it through a quest for knowledge. Ignorance is NOT bliss. That is the ploy of tyrants. Keep people stupid and unaware and they can be manipulated. Anyway, Stardust is a great movie. I recommend it.