“Keep your hope, but bury your hatred.” Yes, yes. So much of organized religion is based in fear, as you have captured so eloquently, and of course the lashing out and hatred also comes from that fear. I believe to truly realize the spirit of any religion, hatred must be cast out and people must truly learn to love one another.
Thank you for this one. It seems we humans so desperately want to differentiate ourselves from others when deep down we all need and want the same things.
Not only to bury your hatred but people need to be taught and encouraged to recognize their hatred and let it go. Let the hatred leave them to make room for the tolerance of one another as the human that they exist as on earth.
Thank you for this. I have seen so much hatred from monsters and yet all I want for them is happiness, peace and hope. I have endured more than one near death experience and each time it brings me closer to the very thoughts and feelings I had when I was young. Love is the answer.
I am afraid of nothing and everything. Except dying. It is the one thing I do not fear. And you, my love, are the light that shines through all the holes others stabbed in me to create this starry galaxy of hope.
Stacy you're so very welcome, thank YOU for showing up for this. Love is the answer, you said it so perfectly. I also do not fear death, only a life that feels wasted and unfilled with love.
This was a great one!!! We all need to take time to look around us in every direction and see the beauty…. Ugly has no place in my heart….. we all shine!! Love ya buddy! “ Good form”
I’m going to light two candles now, because this is a perfect sermon for Advent, and Hanukkah. I didn’t grow up Catholic or Jewish. I get to celebrate both because people I love do, but something I have learned from all our spiraled faith, is we all get a little bit right as much as we all get so much wrong. There is holiness in our discontent. And our stubborn hope in love wins out every time. See you all in the stars.
Megan, so strange as I am deeply spiritual but not religious, but writing it, it almost Felt like a sermon. You said it so well: we all get a little bit right, we all get so much wrong. Touche. See you there, up in the constellations.
Beautiful piece, thank you! My hope and prayer is: To find ways to be with it all it – the awe, the heartbreak, the joy, the contradictions, the limitations, the possibilities, the trauma, the confounding beauty. That we all learn to be lit up by our interconnectedness and radiant diversity, as we go our separate ways on a multitude of life-giving paths, together.
This is so incredibly well-timed for me. On Sunday, I made the trek to my hometown over 3 hours away to say goodbye to the woman who was my mother-in-law for over 27 years. After getting divorced 5 years ago, she told me several times, "You will always be my daughter, you are always family, and I love you." While visiting her in hospice on Sunday, she woke for a few moments to say these things to me again, and as she grasped my hands to her chest, she said, "I'm so sorry it had to be this way." I don't know if she meant the things that resulted in my divorce from her son (we're still friends) or the cancer that was taking her from us. Either way, it was a beautiful shared moment, and I was told that after we left, she never really woke up again. She left this world yesterday evening, with the hope of seeing loved ones who had gone before her. Your writing brings all of the possible perspectives to the same place - we don't know what lies beyond, and all the belief systems in the world have the same answer...we can only hope.
Oh Kristi, I am so sorry for your loss, what a wonderful woman she seems to be. How blessed to have had time with her, to have those moments. We can only hope, as you so eloquently said, to be as she was, and is, and always will be. Thank you for this, and we're here should you need.
I’m so very sorry for your loss, Kristi. Your mother in law sounds like she was a beautiful loving person and Im sending love and prayers for peace for you and all who loved her. ♥️
Thank you Tyler for this beautiful perspective. Man, my Sundays are always so introspective and enhanced because of these beautiful pieces. So honoured to read and listen to each of them - especially this one!!
Ahh Heather, my goal has Always been to make Sunday's richer, more introspective, more beautiful, and more of an escape from everything else, if only for a few minutes. I'm so over-the-moon that you spend some of your time with me.
“Keep your hope, but bury your hatred.” Yes, yes. So much of organized religion is based in fear, as you have captured so eloquently, and of course the lashing out and hatred also comes from that fear. I believe to truly realize the spirit of any religion, hatred must be cast out and people must truly learn to love one another.
You're so right, and I am so ready for a place where it's not fear, but love, that we base it all in.
Beautifully said and I couldn’t agree more.
THANK you Miranda. My goodness, thank you.
Thank you for this one. It seems we humans so desperately want to differentiate ourselves from others when deep down we all need and want the same things.
Thank YOU for reading it. This one meant A LOT to me. Having you all read it means worlds.
Not only to bury your hatred but people need to be taught and encouraged to recognize their hatred and let it go. Let the hatred leave them to make room for the tolerance of one another as the human that they exist as on earth.
Yes. I agree. I’ll never judge someone who comes forward and admits they are dealing with feelings of hatred and they need help moving past it.
Yes Meredith! You're so very right! Let the hatred leave them.
Thank you for this. I have seen so much hatred from monsters and yet all I want for them is happiness, peace and hope. I have endured more than one near death experience and each time it brings me closer to the very thoughts and feelings I had when I was young. Love is the answer.
I am afraid of nothing and everything. Except dying. It is the one thing I do not fear. And you, my love, are the light that shines through all the holes others stabbed in me to create this starry galaxy of hope.
Stacy you're so very welcome, thank YOU for showing up for this. Love is the answer, you said it so perfectly. I also do not fear death, only a life that feels wasted and unfilled with love.
This was a great one!!! We all need to take time to look around us in every direction and see the beauty…. Ugly has no place in my heart….. we all shine!! Love ya buddy! “ Good form”
Thanks Marmalade! Keep the ugly out, and we all thrive.
I’m going to light two candles now, because this is a perfect sermon for Advent, and Hanukkah. I didn’t grow up Catholic or Jewish. I get to celebrate both because people I love do, but something I have learned from all our spiraled faith, is we all get a little bit right as much as we all get so much wrong. There is holiness in our discontent. And our stubborn hope in love wins out every time. See you all in the stars.
Megan, so strange as I am deeply spiritual but not religious, but writing it, it almost Felt like a sermon. You said it so well: we all get a little bit right, we all get so much wrong. Touche. See you there, up in the constellations.
Oh man. This one brought me to tears. So much yes. At the end of the day, only love matters.
Only love, always love. I love YOU.
And I love you :)
Beautiful piece, thank you! My hope and prayer is: To find ways to be with it all it – the awe, the heartbreak, the joy, the contradictions, the limitations, the possibilities, the trauma, the confounding beauty. That we all learn to be lit up by our interconnectedness and radiant diversity, as we go our separate ways on a multitude of life-giving paths, together.
"TO find ways to be with it all." My goodness, Taryn, what a stunning sentiment. This little paragraph is so beyond lovely.
This is so incredibly well-timed for me. On Sunday, I made the trek to my hometown over 3 hours away to say goodbye to the woman who was my mother-in-law for over 27 years. After getting divorced 5 years ago, she told me several times, "You will always be my daughter, you are always family, and I love you." While visiting her in hospice on Sunday, she woke for a few moments to say these things to me again, and as she grasped my hands to her chest, she said, "I'm so sorry it had to be this way." I don't know if she meant the things that resulted in my divorce from her son (we're still friends) or the cancer that was taking her from us. Either way, it was a beautiful shared moment, and I was told that after we left, she never really woke up again. She left this world yesterday evening, with the hope of seeing loved ones who had gone before her. Your writing brings all of the possible perspectives to the same place - we don't know what lies beyond, and all the belief systems in the world have the same answer...we can only hope.
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Oh Kristi, I am so sorry for your loss, what a wonderful woman she seems to be. How blessed to have had time with her, to have those moments. We can only hope, as you so eloquently said, to be as she was, and is, and always will be. Thank you for this, and we're here should you need.
I’m so very sorry for your loss, Kristi. Your mother in law sounds like she was a beautiful loving person and Im sending love and prayers for peace for you and all who loved her. ♥️
Thank you Tyler for this beautiful perspective. Man, my Sundays are always so introspective and enhanced because of these beautiful pieces. So honoured to read and listen to each of them - especially this one!!
Ahh Heather, my goal has Always been to make Sunday's richer, more introspective, more beautiful, and more of an escape from everything else, if only for a few minutes. I'm so over-the-moon that you spend some of your time with me.