While paying attention to funeral and death rituals, I also noticed there is opposition to cemeteries I wasn’t aware of. Until more recently, I never contemplated any kind of burial other than the traditional casket laid in a cemetery plot with a headstone.
Funeral Traditions – Uncomfortable Death Rituals
When my husband was thirteen years old, his younger 7-year-old brother died of leukemia. At the time of his little brother’s death, my husband discovered he did not feel comfortable with some of the funeral traditions surrounding death.
Sleeping – Awkward funeral traditions
Continue readingBorn Good – Choose Negativity- Overlooked Influence
Eighty percent or more believe babies are born good. The majority also believe, if we choose, we can make bad choices, which are influenced by the environment and key people in our lives most of the time. I am a part of these majority groups, but I also think there is an overlooked influence that impacts all of us. I would like to address this hidden influence for your consideration.
Born Good – Positive to Negative
Continue readingIf The World Is Getting Meaner – Mercy or Justice
I have overheard conversations that it seems as though the world is getting meaner. I have to agree with one possible exception, maybe it is America getting meaner rather than the whole world. If the world is getting meaner, what can be done to reverse “meanness to kindness”?
If the world is getting meaner
Continue readingFear Based to Love Based – Healing by Embracing Truth
I am striving to move from a
Self-Love
Continue readingHonoring Parents Example – Being Honest not Catering To
In the past few years, many of my beliefs have changed. Included among my new beliefs is what it means to keep the commandment to honor parents. I will share an honoring parents example to explain there is no honor without honesty.
Defining the word honor
Prior to sharing my honoring parents example, I desire to include the dictionary’s meaning of the word “honor”.
honesty, fairness, or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions. – dictionary.com
I recently learned the hard way that the best way to honor parents is by being honest.
Dampen my joy
Continue readingOvercoming Loneliness – Looking Inward
I have had the mindset that loneliness is when a person doesn’t have friends or a companion. After observing the state of loneliness a bit closer, I have changed my views about the subject of overcoming loneliness.