As a youngster, you believe whatever your parents, close relatives, teachers, and significant others tell you. And most of the time - you do not question what you've been told - you just accept the information that has been shared with you. Now, as a seasoned adult, I now question many of the things that I had been taught to accept and believe. BUT- as I look at the world changing around me- I am forced to look at life and issues such as Education, Health, Immigration Reform, Religion and the current political atmosphere and other things with a deeper/different perspective.
Many trusted men and women of the cloth have failed to live up to the standards that they have taught about and that in itself, causes me to step back and reevaluate what has been accepted as the norm. (Not excluding the fact that I, like so many others have also fallen short at times). At any rate -we are reminded that people are human beings and are sometimes weak, sometimes strong and sometimes are agents of disappointment. So, the bottom line is - reassessing and determining what is "truth"( to me, and what it is to you) and then acting upon that "truth".
What has been reinforced within me is to continue standing on my principles and never bending because someone else has a different philosophy. Life is what we make it and what we become is what we have purposed to become.
Have a Blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year filled with the sincere desires of your heart.
Sincerely,
Mary Ellen
