Serious, Deep Post

Oh noes... it's that time again: serious post is serious.



Photo by Bill Hatcher

I have been noticing that everyone around me is going through some kind of transition; big or small, everyday or one day at a time, it is happening. The world we live in is changing. I can imagine we feel the echoes of change our parents and grandparents felt some 40 and 50 years ago rippling out around us into greatness we do not yet know. The Earth is changing. It has before; whatever the climate is doing is "change" and that's as far as I'll debate that with anyone. The magnetic poles are shifting. More and more severe weather and natural disasters are happening more often.

You would think a lot more people would start doing the matriarchy "thinking" trait along with these changes for an answer to all the "why's" circling around us with each change by which we are accosted. But alas we are stuck in a patriarchy where a "doing" trait is la mode. There's nothing wrong about doing versus thinking but I'd rather turn the light on to know who I'm shooting in a dark hallway.

I am going through a lot of transition like everyone else, too. More on that tomorrow if you so choose to come back. 

Everyone we see everyday is fighting a great battle even if we are not privy to it. Be kind.

Everyone we know and see is connected. We are not "races" of people; we are all of the human race. Last time I checked they don't classify different-colored cats as different species or races just because their fur is different colored.

Given this, one of my personal beliefs I will share with you is reincarnation. I believe that Jesus' second "coming" is when he will be reincarnated, no? I believe He was born, was a person and lived in the time where 0 is a year. I will not get into any more specific beliefs of mine, except for this basic set of thoughts.

But on the note of reincarnation: (humor me if this is not a belief of yours) what if some people who were born white in their first life have come back black, Hispanic, Asian or any other different nationality? What if they came back a different gender? What if this is where true love and reincarnation meet? In gay/queer partnerships? In multicultural relationships? I'm pretty sure that before we become physically born we do not have a gender or "color" while we are waiting for whatever God is to place us where He needs us to be. Our true God-selves (that are present while we wait with God to be born) match up with our primordial puzzle piece, our "soul mates," no matter what color or gender they become when they are born as well.

If you are Christian do you not believe God has control over everything and is aware He is making people who are born exactly as they need to be? If you believe in Karma or just the Universe's Order, do you not acknowledge that we do not have the correct set of tools with which to place judgement upon others who are different from us and live differently than we do?

EVERYTHING happens for a reason. EVERYONE is born to do just what they were made to do. Whether that be to become a life-saving doctor or an individual who drowns themselves in any drug they can get their hands on. We just don't know the big idea, so we cannot say which life is a better use of days. They could be equally valid and should be considered such until we reach the place where we will rest forever. Be it in deep space, another dimension, "heaven," "hell," or the ground.

Just as there are many people in the world there are many trees in a forest. In late August 2011 PBS aired an episode of NOVA that featured the findings of a group of people who measured and saw the forest for the trees. They found that each tree is placed just such that each one, once grown, fills in the treetop canopy area so that each tree can have enough light to grow. On the forest floor the gaps of light that filter through grow random patches of life with moss, fungi or other spreading plants. Some trees are large, some are small and others are very small. But allowed to grow to their full potential each tree has a space allotted and kept for it by the other trees. Even trees that fall become new homes for animals who live in hollowed-out trunks and eventually, a tree grows in its place and fills in the gap of sunlight the other left behind.

Think about the transitions you are going through, and come back tomorrow if you would care to hear how my life is changing---more than I ever thought.