I'll Never Get Racist, Sexist People

It never fails to amaze me that racist, sexist people still exist... Really though? Seriously? We're about to be in 2010. The man as the breadwinner, the woman as the secretary, black people living in ghettos, and immigrants not speaking English IS A MYTH.

Frustrated today? Oh yeah! Disheartened by the ignorance and stupidity of people? Yes!

But, there's one beautiful gift that comes with age: the ability to step back and know that "he can have patience can have what he will" (Benjamin Franklin).

Needless to say, I've pulled out my copy of "The Four Agreements" and I've recited "Don't take it personal." We don't learn from people who judge us and my judgment of their ignorance is equal to their judgment of people unlike themselves.

The answer to all this separation talk? Love.

God, let me love them with an open heart and see their banter with a compassionate spirit... I am willing to see things differently...

Intimacy is Sacred... and Challenging

Intimacy... In To Me I See...

Most of us are prepared to love. We are born to love, built in love, sometimes afraid of love and always willing to hear about love... But what about intimacy?

Intimacy is sacred, exhilarating, and very, very mysterious. Most of us know the word and, yet, few of us live the experience.

I came across Marianne Williamson's prayer on intimacy, read it this morning, and it touched my heart. I hope it touches yours as well...

Dear God,

Please show me how to love.

Teach me how to extend my light into the life of another.

Remove the barriers to my soul, the walls which stand in front of my heart,

My commitment to aloneness,

My resistances to joining.

I do not seek love, dear God, for I know it is all around me.

I seek instead the healing of my resistances to it,

the strengthening of my spirit;

That I might learn to love, to love well, to love fully, to love deeply.

When my true love calls, dear Lord,

Please keep my ears open.

Let me not shut down.

Let me not forsake him.

Let me always remember that his call to love him is my call to love You.

Thank You very much.

Amen.

- Marianne Williamson, Illuminata

Feeling Good (Knew I Would;)

The headaches have finally gone away (Hallelujah!!!!). I'm feeling really good. I don't miss the rice, the pasta, the wheat, the gluten, the dairy (I was always a Soy Milk fan) OR the coffee (sorry Starbucks:). I don't miss any of it and that's kinda strange.

I love the fact that I can keep track of all of my calories on www.fitday.com. It lets me know where I'm missing nutrition and other things. I feel really good.

On an aside, I saw Star Trek (the new one) last night and it was AWESOME! Action packed from the first scene to the last. I wasn't a Trekkie before this but now I'm thinkin'... yeah.