Beliefs

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1875

“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.  Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was Protestant.  Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.”  Martin Niemoller, 1945

What do you really believe?  Have you taken the time to check out your beliefs, subjected them to rigorous scrutiny?  Determined how well they contribute to a world that works for everyone and everything?  Do you hold your beliefs because authority figures in your past held them?  Do you own them, or does someone else or some other group or organization own them?  Does what you believe embody both the physical and metaphysical aspects of the one God/no idols concept, and the Ten Commandments?  What do you know, how do you know it, and how well is that working for you, your family, community, the Nation and a world that works for everyone and everything? 

Doubt what you believe! Question it! Check it out!  Have the humility and grace to recognize you don’t know everything and that maybe, just maybe, you can make a change, perhaps only a slight shift, that will enable you to better embody both the physical and metaphysical aspects of the one God/no idols concept, and the Ten Commandments, and make a contribution to a world that works for everyone and everything.