Comfort and Joy OR Feeling is Believing
Hopefully, readers will always find time and space enough within themselves to get in touch with their own deeper feelings. In this sense at least, all religious faiths and festivals have something in common.
Love has the capacity for rising above the worst life and nature may feel inclined to throw at it, including winter, a winter of the heart as well as of the meteorological kind.
Yes, here I go again. The message of all religious faiths and festivals - is one of peace and love; who hears and acts upon it, is another matter.
Long, long live love … and let's not discriminate against LGBT folks just because it offends some heterosexual 'norm'; in a common humanity, diversity is part of what should be an all-inclusive norm, not an exception to any rules laid down and spread by any religious dogma as a socio-cultural-religious 'norm'. God is love, after all.
Long, long live peace, too, wherever it is given even half a chance.
As for peace of mind, we can but try for it, and once we find, be sure to share it, if only to take comfort and joy from watching the ripples spread ...
Gay or straight, there is more to anyone than his or her sexuality; certain individuals, organizations, and communities (parents, too) - worldwide - would serve themselves and others by far better for keeping that in mind.
COMFORT AND JOY or
I could hear bells ringing,
Suddenly, I saw you there,
Loneliness ebbing away,
Where snow piles your grave,
Not once a year but every day,
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