Ever notice how people say "be yourself" but pretty much everyone and everything says CONFORM?
Look. The truth is, you are supposed to be you and I am supposed to be me. The real ones.
The truth about faking it?
You lose YOU!
And when we lie, pretend or hide who we really are, we lose our purpose and pick up unwanted baggage filled with shame, anxiety, stress and all kinds of negative energy.
The truth about lying is that it's FATAL. When we lie, we kill the dream that is our life--we lose ourselves.
So, I invite you to join me and just BE...
Once you do that, well, it's a piece of cake to embrace others for who and what they are.
And maybe like me, you are tired of the concept of TOLERANCE.
Can you see how much better off the world would be if we moved from TOLERANCE to ACCEPTANCE? If we relinquished old, tired ideas about "others" and just opened our hearts and minds...?
And just imagine a world where we moved from ACCEPTANCE to RESPECT! If we actually valued difference and embraced it, in all its shapes, colors and sizes.
Dare we go one step better? From RESPECT to RELATIONSHIP! My God, what fun! Great food, conversation and a world of colors, tastes, music, and opinion.
Just imagine that for a moment! Close your eyes. Breathe it in.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about all of this. Add a note now or stop back later. Chat with me on Facebook or Twitter, if you like.
And even if you disagree, well, that's okay too since I am focusing on me--being who I am, in this, the story of my life, living in joy as I experience all the diversity the world has to offer!
Regards to all,
Susan
Author of Walking in The Deep End
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The question that is raised for me is:
ReplyDelete"Therefore, are there elements of the human experience that people are incapable of BEing in any true, honest, or genuine sense?"
Is this a question that can be answered with any sense of organization?
Is the answer simple "relativity?"
Perhaps the human experience is compromised of universal AND relative truths?
Perhaps our most modern Christian ethos has denied relativity- or, at the very least, been irresponsible with its application.
Perhaps the Christian ethos has deemed "universal" what is certainly "relative?"
Perhaps we have called "relative" what is certainly "universal?"
What is the full extent that one may live the truth, "Unto thyself be true"?
Whenever we can honestly distinguish between the God-sculpted elements of the human experience and the man-sculpted elements of the human experience we will fundamentally be able to answer this question that not only creates hostility and division in the church, but has saturated the human conscience sense the beginning.
As resonable, loving, Jesus-focused people, let us continue the discussion.
To be "true to thyself" is central to living in intigration and abundance of the eternal life of YHVH.
How may one be "optimally connected?"
or better...
How many one live "optimally human?"
Ask and answer these questions with a loving heart, judgment aside, and an open mind.
Remember that above all, Jesus says that "love wins" because love leads to truth- or where there perhaps may be a lack of it.
Love never fails because love leads one to the truth, because, above all, love is the drum major in the marching band of truth.
Shalom!
BTW, your concept of "TOLERANCE to ACCEPTANCE to RESPECT to RELATIONSHIP" is right on!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to steal that one day! You prophet you!