Daily Archives: July 5, 2022

WOMEN’S FREEDOM

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With all the happenings in the world we need to ask ourselves what FREEDOM means to us. We just celebrated our country’s freedom and lost women’s freedom. FREEDOM is a RIGHT for All people, regardless of color, culture, ethnicity, faith, gender or gender preference. If we are being denied our right to make free choices, then we are not living in a country that spouts freedom with words and not with actions. In the recent events where rulings say women do not have power of choice, I believe we have de-evolved.

“If you don’t accept that bodily automony is an essential unconditional liberty, it’s a waste of time talking to you at all. No other liberties survive without that one, more fundamental than property rights. If you don’t own yourself absolutely, you own nothing. If every time men had sex, they risked death, physical disability, social shunning, a life altering interruption of their education or career, and the sudden life-long responsibility for another being, I think they’d expect a choice in the matter.”

(author unknown)

From Rev. Dr. Abigail Albert

PUSHED PULLED PREPARED

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Dear Friends,

Have you felt like you have put your life on hold these past two years? Do you feel like you are in your cocoon and feel like it is time to break out and start flying again. I have and I do! These past two years both Steve and I have been extremely careful and have stayed at home except for food shopping, errands and appointments. We have been inside a church once and all other gatherings have been outside. I am grateful we have had the opportunity to participate in church services, conferences and other interfaith events via zoom. I feel we have kept ourselves safe and secure. We have a sweet      21 month old granddaughter so being with her and staying healthy is our top priority. All these safety measures were needed and necessary! And yet, I am getting the “God Pull, God Push” to continue our interfaith work beyond our cocoon and comfort zone.

I have been reading a book by my friend and interfaith colleague, Sande Hart called The Liminal Odyssey; The Alchemy Power of the Spaces In-between. It is a fabulous book about her soul journey with pivotal moments in life where she took a leap of faith, spread her wings to make new choices and discover new paths of spiritual opportunity and growth. I can relate to her story and saw where pivotal moments in my life came to me by the still small (sometime loud) voice of God to bring me where I am today.

I feel I am at this moment at a pivotal place where I can either stay in my cocoon or reclaim by purpose of promoting Interfaith in a greater way.
I have been in a quandary about whether to attend the 2023 Parliament of World Religions in Chicago. The fear of traveling and being with a huge group of people is telling me NO. Yet, the still small voice of God within is saying
GO, BE THERE. Who shall I trust? My fear or my God?

That is a no brainer. GOD has always led me to my greater good!
Two quotes from Sande’s book
“When your passions meet the needs of the world, therein lies your calling.”
Aristotle
“When your passions meet the needs of your soul, therein lies your soul’s freedom.”
Sande Hart

I still plan to be extremely careful, always wearing a mask. I will get my second COVID booster and when I come home, I will get tested for COVID.

God’s PUSH and God’s PULL and my diligent PREPARATION will always bring me safely to where I need to BE.

Are you ready to break out of your cocoon? Is there something brewing in you , a thought, an urge to be and do something different? LISTEN to the still small voice within. Go for it….!!!

Pushed, Pulled, Prepared,
Abigail and Steve