I decided to take a break from watching the West Wing and do some regular cleaning. For the past couple of nights I’ve been having trouble sleeping and couldn’t figure out why. I was emptying the trash when I looked up at the sky and suddenly felt better. I haven’t seen the moon or stars in a while and it felt good to marvel in things that you have no control over. You see, I’ve been worrying about some things that I can’t do much about and I needed this night to help me discover that those things don’t matter and won’t affect my life in any way. I often think that I can control the outcome of things when I have to realize that I can’t control everything. I sure would like to but I can’t. I’ve been worried about a guy friend of mine who told a lie on me and I haven’t been able to get that off my chest until tonight. I gazed up at the sky and really felt better…and worse…at the same time. You see while I was letting this situation go I was also letting go a piece of my mind that has been there for almost two weeks. I did my part in his situation and I should have left that alone a long time ago but that’s old news now.
Friends we are living in very suspicious time now and when someone says to live life…please take them at their word. I love myself too much to let negativity put me down and you should too. Get up from your computers and go outside and take a look at God’s wonderful creation, go splurge and buy your pets an expensive toy that they’ll play with twice and leave alone, call your kids in the room and shoot them a smile and a wink (you don’t have to speak “I love you” to express it), call your lover in and give them a kiss on the hand or the cheek and finally call your parents they could never hear from you enough. Also, call a friend over and look them in the eyes and say “I trust you” I bet they’ll never forget it. I really don’t believe we treat ourselves with enough love and respect, we should. I do love you all…don’t forget that…
Seek Peace
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Hate
Why do they hate us daddy?
My son asked as I laid him to bed.
Remember hate is a word that we never ever use
But who is it that hates you? I said.
The kids at my school said that we’re going to hell
So I asked my teacher “what do they mean?”
She said that my parent’s were men so were all sinners
Unless we started to live a life that was pure and clean.
Why do they hate us daddy?
Son lets try not to use that word.
But they’re so mean to us why shouldn’t we be mean back?
Isn’t our country at war because our country was attacked?
Son we’re at war because our leader isn’t being one
And your classmates act the way they do because intelligence our society lacks.
By now he was tiredly rubbing his eyes
after all the confusion and worry I suppose.
So I whispered to him that we’ll finish tomorrow
And wiped the tears that slid down my nose.
Daddy, he said as I rose to my feet
Can I use the word once more before I go to sleep?
Go ahead Son I said with bracing ears
Worried about his thoughts and holding back the tears
He sat up in his bed to get my full attention
I squinted my eyes and cocked my head so he was to know I was listening to him
He spoke words that I keep caged in my heart and will hold them there forever
He gripped his sheets and looked straight up and said Daddy I would never hate them.
By: Jamie
Seek Peace
My son asked as I laid him to bed.
Remember hate is a word that we never ever use
But who is it that hates you? I said.
The kids at my school said that we’re going to hell
So I asked my teacher “what do they mean?”
She said that my parent’s were men so were all sinners
Unless we started to live a life that was pure and clean.
Why do they hate us daddy?
Son lets try not to use that word.
But they’re so mean to us why shouldn’t we be mean back?
Isn’t our country at war because our country was attacked?
Son we’re at war because our leader isn’t being one
And your classmates act the way they do because intelligence our society lacks.
By now he was tiredly rubbing his eyes
after all the confusion and worry I suppose.
So I whispered to him that we’ll finish tomorrow
And wiped the tears that slid down my nose.
Daddy, he said as I rose to my feet
Can I use the word once more before I go to sleep?
Go ahead Son I said with bracing ears
Worried about his thoughts and holding back the tears
He sat up in his bed to get my full attention
I squinted my eyes and cocked my head so he was to know I was listening to him
He spoke words that I keep caged in my heart and will hold them there forever
He gripped his sheets and looked straight up and said Daddy I would never hate them.
By: Jamie
Seek Peace
Monday, March 5, 2007
Friends and Family
I was raised in a very peculiar family in some ways. There are many members of my family who aren’t blood relatives. Growing up I never understood it when people referred to someone as their “step-brother” or if someone was to say “my friends and my family mean a lot to me.” But as I grow older (and it pains me to type that word “old”) I see this more often and I think to myself, “would the world be any better if everyone treated there friends as their family?” I always do. Given, I’m closer to some of my friends than others as many people are closer to some members of their family, but is it really necessary to distinguish the two? Why is family more important than friendship? Don’t many of us spend as much time with our friends as our families if not more? I was eleven- ears old when I found out my Aunt Mary wasn’t my moms blood sister and when my moms actual blood sister told me this I was confused as to why it mattered. She began stating that many people treat others differently because they share the same blood (this statement sounds kind of off because she was talking to an eleven year old) but our family don’t see things that way and don’t you every forget that. So I haven’t.
So I’ve taken this ideology into many of my friendships and have confused many friends because their family don’t see things that way. I’m not saying that my friends treat their family like gold and friends like trash but some of them can’t bring themselves to see the two entities on the same level. Honestly I don’t have the slightest clue why. After all aren’t we all brothers and sisters under the sun? I went to a church event with one of my friends and as we were leaving one of the members said, “you all look so nice together, are you all family?” I without giving it much thought said “yes” and my friend countered saying “no” and introducing members of her family and then introduced her friends. It kind of knocked me back for a second and then I had to think about it and say OK, I forgot. Kind of the same thing happened a few months later when the same friend visited my home church and my mother who’s one of the ministers introduced my friend as her daughter.
Some might call this whole arrangement silly and others might think that it’s a better way of living… I don’t know you choose. I love the way my family put the two together. I believe the closer we see each other the better we will treat one another. As soon as we start putting up restrictions, the more distant we’ll feel…but that’s just my opinion. I’m sure many people have lived long happy lives with their separation between friends and family (he he…in case you didn’t notice I was playing with separation between church and state!…OK I’m done) but try out my way and see don’t it work better.
Seek Peace
So I’ve taken this ideology into many of my friendships and have confused many friends because their family don’t see things that way. I’m not saying that my friends treat their family like gold and friends like trash but some of them can’t bring themselves to see the two entities on the same level. Honestly I don’t have the slightest clue why. After all aren’t we all brothers and sisters under the sun? I went to a church event with one of my friends and as we were leaving one of the members said, “you all look so nice together, are you all family?” I without giving it much thought said “yes” and my friend countered saying “no” and introducing members of her family and then introduced her friends. It kind of knocked me back for a second and then I had to think about it and say OK, I forgot. Kind of the same thing happened a few months later when the same friend visited my home church and my mother who’s one of the ministers introduced my friend as her daughter.
Some might call this whole arrangement silly and others might think that it’s a better way of living… I don’t know you choose. I love the way my family put the two together. I believe the closer we see each other the better we will treat one another. As soon as we start putting up restrictions, the more distant we’ll feel…but that’s just my opinion. I’m sure many people have lived long happy lives with their separation between friends and family (he he…in case you didn’t notice I was playing with separation between church and state!…OK I’m done) but try out my way and see don’t it work better.
Seek Peace
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