Who are you?

Greetings!!!

 

Labels. As human beings, everything has a label...a name...

 

Even when we meet each other, we say, "what do you do?" as if that truly defines who we are.

 

Labels limit us.

 

I don't want to be just one thing.

 

I am not just what I do for a living, I am many things...I am a woman, a mother,  a child of Creator, I am a sister, a friend, a daughter. I am many things..

 

How do the labels limit us, in how we describe ourselves?

 

In how we describe others?

 

In how we describe our children?

 

Labels give us and others an excuse to be just one thing. Even worse if the label is derogatory. Take the time to un-label yourself, and others.

 

It will free you to be so much more.

 

Here is the thought for the day

 

  Let us pray to the One who holds us in the hollow of
  His hands, 
  To the One who holds us in the curve of Her arms, 
  To the One whose flesh is the flesh of hills and  
  hummingbirds and angleworms, 

  Whose skin is the color of an old Black woman and 
  a young white man; and the color of the leopard 
  and the grizzly bear and the green grass snake, 

  Whose hair is like the aurora borealis, rainbows,
  nebulae, waterfalls, and a spider's web, 

  Whose eyes sometime shine like the Evening Star,
  and then like fireflies, and then again like an 
  open wound, 

  Whose touch is both the touch of life and the touch
  of death,   And whose name is everyone's, but mostly mine. 

  And what shall we pray? 
  Let us say, "Thank you."

  Max Coots
   Minister Emeritus of the Canton,N.Y. 
   Unitarian Universalist Church

 

Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber