I began this blog as a draft of ideas,jotting down notes if you will on the subject of happiness. It was a beautiful day and all the stars were in alignment and I was feeling very satisfied with life. How a day changes things. Today I am feeling very melancholy. I want to be happy and choose happiness but I have seen so much ugly in the past twenty four hours.
My kids come home frustrated daily from school with messages of hate that they have heard from homophobia, to racism, & even professed Christians giving there version of the Bible to purport more hate. Today after I taught a yoga class a woman (who is a student mind you) accused me of teaching Hinduism because I say "Namaste'' at the end of class. I am not going into that here, except to say "Yoga is Yoga, it is not a religion, it is a philosophy, art form,and scientific body practice." People who are ignorant of this might as well say the philosophies of Aristotle, Thoreau, or Plato is religion and not a philosophical view point for humanity.
So much of me is happy that our nation elected this man to be the president,not because of his skin color but because he was the best candidate. I want to show my happiness, but don't feel able, because there are so many purported Christians in my area acting as if the sky is falling. Today I stand up to this ridiculousness telling those who espouse it I disagree. I would not have done this four years ago as I was afraid of hurting someones feelings, but not now. There are ministers in the pulpit preaching that Obama is the Anti Christ. This is ridiculous. My fifteen year old is questioning his Christian faith in this ugliness he sees at school and in our area. My husband and I have taught our kids to be open and loving, and the message of the gospel's is love thy neighbor, Jesus was love not judgment and hate. We the Progressive Christians, Muslims, Jews and other religions need to ban together to stand up against ignorance and fundamentalism that teaches radical ideas that promote fear mongering.
As for happiness: I printed my notes on the bottom for you and for I to read: maybe I can call to the voice that spoke to me Monday and feel that happiness again in spite of the hate around me.
A dear friend said to me in reply to my sheer frustration today "when the lights come on the roaches come out"... Yes they do.
In love and light,
Courtney
Happiness
Eeyore
Reading Social Stories on the psychological effects of complaining
My children: Eeyore's and Tigger's
Blessings
Writing "Best Job in the world" and believing it.
Maybe I will just believe it and see what happens
Acting as if
Doing as if
Being as If
Putting action to your insides
My kids come home frustrated daily from school with messages of hate that they have heard from homophobia, to racism, & even professed Christians giving there version of the Bible to purport more hate. Today after I taught a yoga class a woman (who is a student mind you) accused me of teaching Hinduism because I say "Namaste'' at the end of class. I am not going into that here, except to say "Yoga is Yoga, it is not a religion, it is a philosophy, art form,and scientific body practice." People who are ignorant of this might as well say the philosophies of Aristotle, Thoreau, or Plato is religion and not a philosophical view point for humanity.
So much of me is happy that our nation elected this man to be the president,not because of his skin color but because he was the best candidate. I want to show my happiness, but don't feel able, because there are so many purported Christians in my area acting as if the sky is falling. Today I stand up to this ridiculousness telling those who espouse it I disagree. I would not have done this four years ago as I was afraid of hurting someones feelings, but not now. There are ministers in the pulpit preaching that Obama is the Anti Christ. This is ridiculous. My fifteen year old is questioning his Christian faith in this ugliness he sees at school and in our area. My husband and I have taught our kids to be open and loving, and the message of the gospel's is love thy neighbor, Jesus was love not judgment and hate. We the Progressive Christians, Muslims, Jews and other religions need to ban together to stand up against ignorance and fundamentalism that teaches radical ideas that promote fear mongering.
As for happiness: I printed my notes on the bottom for you and for I to read: maybe I can call to the voice that spoke to me Monday and feel that happiness again in spite of the hate around me.
A dear friend said to me in reply to my sheer frustration today "when the lights come on the roaches come out"... Yes they do.
In love and light,
Courtney
Happiness
Eeyore
Reading Social Stories on the psychological effects of complaining
My children: Eeyore's and Tigger's
Blessings
Writing "Best Job in the world" and believing it.
Maybe I will just believe it and see what happens
Acting as if
Doing as if
Being as If
Putting action to your insides
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