Courage

Does courage stand in the absence of fear or in the face of? I think some would say that courage is devoid of fear but I wonder if courage is when you take a stand and stare down fear in the face. If it is the later, then doesn't it empower you to take courage in your attempts at change, etc? Knowing that you can be courageous in the face of fear instead of waiting for fear to have played his roll before courage can take hold seems powerful and conquering.

Death

Today a friend lost her cousin and another friend lost her grandmother. Though it is sad when someone leaves this life I truly believe that not only is the person relieved of worldly cares they carried but they find happiness in leaving them behind. I believe that while we grieve for them they grieve for us. Not in the sense that they miss us but that they wish we understood the great relief they feel and in doing so it would lesson our grief. Dying, I feel, is a graduation of sorts. A chance for the human soul to move onto a higher learning process...to evolve in greater ways than we can imagine. As with graduating high school or college, I feel we should celebrate this new opportunity for our loved one. Yes, we'll miss them. But we'll be with them soon enough and in the meantime we can learn from their life, their legacy...good or bad...and better ourselves and the lives of those we interact with. Who knows, perhaps if we celebrated ones passing we'd better live our own lives. Just a thought.

Politics

So what if someone is a Mormon...or Jewish...or Catholic...or whatever. Should one's religious practice determine their ability or inability to be a good president? Does being a Jew make one incapable of making decisions for this country? Does being a Mormon make one less capable than a Catholic? There are many that think so but let's be honest here....it's absurd. It's as absurd as saying that Hilary Clinton can't make presidential decisions because she has a vagina or that Obama can't represent the USA properly cause he's black. Really people. For those of you who are not voting for someone or are voting for someone solely based on their religion...I say...get a freaking education. And for those of you that say you are Christians and yet preach intolerance of other types of religion other than your own...I say...read the freaking Bible. You have a brain so put it to good use and stop allowing what others tell you what is right or wrong to make your decisions. Mormons don't worship the devil and based on the pure definition of Christianity are Christians. Read a book...study...research and you'll know. A vagina can't prevent you from being a leader nor does being black make you stupid. EDUCATE yourselves. You fear the differences in others because you lack intelligence and your fear is pure discrimination. So before you go and decide that one candidate isn't as good as another based on some arbitrary attribute, educate yourself.