*Praying hands image from Third Rail Supply: https://www.thirdrailsupply.com/products/512-pray-for-us-black-pray-hands-xxl
I am a non-practicing Catholic. I love Catholicism. Where I live, the Church is a Holy refuge, a sacred place and institution to find spiritual union with G-d. The other faiths are our family, our cousins, our brothers and sisters, like everyone, every person is family(even atheists and non-believers). One human family.
Though I am not a churchgoer, Catholicism is my core. Catholic values: Kindness, Humility, Forgiveness, The Golden Rule, Charity, Faith, Hope, Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, Temperance, and Love.
I often think about the relevance of Jesus’ message: forgiveness, not throwing the first stone, treat others as you’d like to be treated, and Yeshua suffered and died for our sins, every single sin, so that we don’t have to suffer or die for our sins. He loved us that much! That is the relevance of Jesus! Life is meant to be lived!
Signs of G-d’s love! …And G-d is a good G-d who loves us and has plans for our happiness and success!
With these profound messages Yeshua is most definitely a prophet.
Let our houses, all of the houses of humanity work on our foundation of loving-kindness, universally, that every human deserves. The details won’t be as important in the future once we all have a foundation of our needs met, loving-kindness, dignity, charity, empathy, hope, forgiveness, humility!
The point is kindness, Hillel had it right! “The message of the entire Torah is kindness, the rest of the Torah is just commentary!” The most important take-away from the Torah is kindness! Loving-kindness!
I encourage you to purchase some Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap and read the label. It is like a breath of fresh air. I love the logo. To me, their logo of a white hand and arm shaking a black hand and arm is symbolic of a polarized separateness meeting in the middle, civilly, through a shake of a hand. Bridging a polarized black/white separateness with kindness. Let us always find intercultural competence, reaching across the aisle through kindness, a worthwhile effort between houses.
