First, many thanks to my mother's friend John for the title of this blog entry.
Secondly, let's take this time to really think on 'boxes'. They can be very useful things when used correctly. This entry ISN'T about those folks that are using them correctly.
Third, again borrowing from my mother's friend John, I find I have a certain 'righteous anger' towards those who misuse the box.
Now, we all know the people that misuse the boxes. They are surrounded by boxes themselves, inside and out and they long to place the rest of us in boxes as well. The boxes themselves would be harmless if they didn't carry THE LABELS!!! You know! . . . There's the race label, the sexuality label, the gender label, the weight label, the list goes on and on, the nation label, the religious label. This is what makes the boxes TRULY HEAVY!
For myself, I look at this 'box business' as deeply personal. I fit in so many boxes. I will 'choose a box' to live in when I can wake up in the morning and choose to be either black, female, lesbian, heavy, compassionate, or any one of the many things that I am each and every day, not by choice, but by design.
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'Tis darkest before the dawn... Weeping endureth but for the night... It ain't never so bad that it can't get even MORE f*cked up...
Is there something outside of you that's troubling you? The
distress you're feeling is not from the thing itself.
The distress you experience is from what you think of it and
the way you feel about it. You can change that in an
instant.
You can change what you fear into what you eagerly
anticipate. You can change a burdensome problem into a
magnificent opportunity.
The vast majority of all that happens in this enormous
universe is out of your control. And yet with every bit of
it, you can control what it means to you.
Do you fully realize how much power that gives you? Do you
understand the unlimited nature of what you can do with
whatever you have?
Just by the way you choose to accept and to make use of
reality, you can bend that reality to empower your own
unique purpose. See what is, accept what is, and use it to
achieve your finest dreams.
Please consider the above - allow it to "marinate" toward insight & revelation... Meanwhile, as an Intercessor of the Godhead (by Grace) my word over you is to Be At Peace - receive this admonition by Faith, that you may allow His "super" to meet your "natural"... then (fervently) "Keep the Faith"... not that you haven't been... "You are not alone."
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