by Carolyn Gwiazdzinski

Created on: April 11, 2009   Last Updated: April 13, 2009

How to be accepting of another's religion? This is one of those questions, along with many others, that I continue to contemplate. And the question and the answer I would like to present is, how can we be accepting of another's religion, we are not accepting of each other and our differences?

We live in a society where we are so busy with being busy, all the time, that we eventually loose sight of ourselves and each other. It seems these days, that something major has to happen to shake us loose and open our eyes and our hearts back to what is real in our life.

And yes, there is plenty happening, on our fair planet called Earth. Especially, with weather patterns; Tornadoes, hurricanes. These types of weather patterns, have the ability to change life at its root core. I have been asking these question since I was a teenager, long before I knew that just by asking these questions and feeling life, through the feelings of an empath, would change the whole course and direction of my life. I am 52 now.

As a society, we have become intolerable to our emotions and our feelings, our actions and our behaviors and most importantly, our thoughts and our words, especially to another. Believe it or not, our busy-ness, although, depending on our financial income, and the things that it affords us to buy or to do, our busy-ness is actually throwing us out of balance and out of alignment with the true core of our inner nature.

Our constant busy-ness, to stay busy, without downtime to regroup with loved ones; to read a book, watch a movie, spend time in nature, is the very thing that we need to recharge ourselves, on a deeper emotional level.

The true reality of all of this is; when really pushed to think beyond our labels, is that our blood is the same color. Our tears are the same color and our souls hold the same light within. What we choose to do with this, within the context of our humanity, is another story.

We are all living and playing to the life of a much bigger orchestra. Doesn't matter what our beliefs or labels are, what is, is. And as we play to a much bigger orchestra to our life, that means, that our humanity, operates much better, when we are slowing down and learning the sheet music of our instrument; our personal life.

We have to start slowing down. It's time to smell the flowers. You see, we are living in times of great change. And these changes are not happening to punish us; change representing financial restructuring or weather patterns, or relationships. These

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