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Pam, I am so drawn to your site. Exploring the various topics you have written on is like opening up a treasure box full of valuable contents. I find that I resonate personally and deeply with so many of the categories and subjects you write. Thank you again so much for making your voice and heart known in such a lovely and confident manner. Your life experience and mine intersect in so many ways. I find that I want to respond quite fully and in detail to what you write. This is not my usual way. Blogging is new territory for me and I have been swept away the last day or so into your world which has been a truly wonderful and powerful experience.
Out of respect for you and your readers I would welcome any guidelines you may want in terms of the length of posts and the frequency of posts for the future. My heart has been so responsive that I found myself writing more at length than I ever intended. With gratitude…
Laura,
No limit. Share what you feel led to share. Maybe I’ll have you do a guest blog sometime.:0) If you feel led. You write beautifully. You are a huge encouragement to me. God bless.
Love,
Pam
Thank you for your encouragement Pam.
Torah-Laura
Just a note Pam to say how much I appreciate the relevant and carefully chosen art work that you attach to your posts. You have gift for that, one of many I am sure.
Kind regards…
Laura, It’s pretty cool to be able to have my writing illustrated by some of the best artitists ever!
Pam
One of the wonders of the age we live in!!
i was drawn to ur blog on paganism and holidays……i think everyone should remember a simple fact. Pagan holidays were celebrated not out of a need for ritual or materialism but a deep understanding of the function of celestial events in our day to day lives…farming etc. My goal for my children is to teach them the cycles that we all fall prey to . Samhain is a chance to remember the dead, to celebrate the dead and to walk one more living day with those we wish we had never had to say goodbye to. One day i will die. One day my children will die. Death is the inevitability we all share regardless of race, creed, religion or status. To celebrate Samhain is to celebrate everything people hold dear.Without a vision the people perish and to perish is a fate worse than death…..luv u mom
Shawn, Thank you for your comment and well thought out perspective. I grew up on a farm/ranch and the cycles of nature are something I’m very aware of and I agree that it is good to recognize how dependent we are upon what the planet provides. Nature is an awesome, powerful force that nutures life and then takes it. You are right, everyone dies and the dead know nothing. Yet, as evidenced in nature, death is a temporary state. Life always re-emerges. I celebrate life and the giver of life, the creator rather than the creation. We all choose what to teach our children by what is most important to us; and then they choose what is important to themselves and make their own decisions as to what to believe and teach their children. This too is cyclical. Holidays are like symbols, they only contain the meaning that humans assign to them and that meaning changes with each sucessive generation as they decide what to believe and reject. As a Chrisitian, I am of the mind that each day is pretty much the same as any other and I want every day to be a day when, Jesus who lives in me also, lives through me. That is best expressed by loving the people God puts into my life no matter their creed, race, religion, or status. I see all of us as equal before, Jesus the giver of eternal life. I believe that God breathes life into all that is living and when He withdraws that breath, we die; but He has the power to breath life into the souls He has created once again. The ancient Hebrews called this the resurection of the dead and the day of judgement. I look to this as a day when God will set everything right in the world. A time when righteousness will rule the earth and that rule has to begin with judgement and true justice (something we know so little of now). It will be the beginning of life’s full comsumption of the temporary state of death. Death will die at the end of this period of time and only the eternal state will reamain, which is life. The products of death, pain, misery, disease won’t exist any longer. This is my vision for myself, the ones I love and hold most dear, for the entire human race, and the entire creation.
It is culture that binds human beings together as “a people” and our culture is very divided in this present time. Everyone assigns their own meaning to the holidays that once contained pretty much the same meaning for everyone when I was a child. Every empire begins to fall when the people drift away or begin to reject the philosophy that underpins the culture. The U.S. is an empire in decline. It is a confusing time with more confusion ahead.
I love you too, Shawn.:0) Thanks for taking the time to read your mom’s blog. I love stimulating conversation with someone who knows why they do what they do. I’m proud to call you my son.
Love,
Mom
I find your insight very thought provoking. You brink up points I have forgotten and new ideas to explore. Thanks
Thank you, Sherry!
Love,
Pam