Archive for November, 2016
Tradition
Tradition is a belief, behavior or both, which is celebrated and passed down within communities; families, tribes, cultures, religions, societies, government and art.
Tradition is from the Latin tradere or traderer, meaning to give over for safekeeping.
We have just celebrated Thanksgiving, an American tradition. As we move toward the Winter Solstice, Christmas and New Year we will be celebrating traditions within our families, our culture, our society and our personal and collective belief system.
I invite you this week to review, renew and initiate traditions of honoring and celebrating!
“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.” ~Arthur M Schlesinger
Thanksgiving 2016
This year is passing quickly. The pace of global and national change is breath taking.
This week we have the opportunity to step back, take a time out, relax, refresh and connect with what is good and sacred in our lives.
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~William Arthur Ward
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul” ~Henry Ward Beecher
This week I invite you to savor gratitude; to allow gratitude to embrace you, to comfort you, to enrich you.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Election
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Prayers for healing the divisiveness sweeping our country.
Opinion
“…a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty,” a “personal view, attitude, or appraisal.”
We all have opinions, crossing the gamut of human behavior. The current political climate has brought forth a divisiveness of opinion that is ripping at the fabric of national unity and personal friendship. And, it appears to have all the earmarks of continuing well beyond election day.
It is a sad state of affairs when the greatest democracy in the world becomes so dysfunctional that the work of governing is deferred to immature squabbling; lacking civility and the willingness to compromise…to find the middle way.
Founding father Thomas Jefferson said, “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
I invite you this week to consider the wisdom of Jefferson’s words.
