I’ve got 6 pages of just topics laid out in a
sentence that I could write on. And right now I’ve got around 20? Blogs that
just need to be posted. Trying to figure out what order to put them in…
So I went through the list asking myself, are you
going to be that stupid and write yet ANOTHER blog on top of the ones you
haven’t posted???
Apparently I am.
The topics that came up were kind of random though.
The ones I felt pulled towards and compelled to write seem unrelated.
The first topic is on the Romani people
–occasionally referred to as “Gypsies” by people too ignorant to know they’re
perpetuating an indignant stereotype that all Romani people came from Egypt.
The Romani wandered and still wander throughout
Europe. I think it is a part of their faith to travel. And so they are almost
always pilgrims in new land, and they were easily spotted and marked as
“different” and lesser in part because their practices and beliefs were not
copy/pasted.
They were tortured, murdered, exiled, preyed upon,
and called evil. They were called thieves on principle. And yet they only
sought to live life the way they wanted and not bother anyone else or be
bothered by anyone else.
People often judge them for not trusting “modern
medicine” by going to see doctors. But their people were experimented on by
“physicians” in power, so why WOULD they trust doctors at this point?
They were and still are in some places treated like
rats or wandering vagrants. They often don’t get hired for jobs and because of
their traveling, often don’t have much to their name.
They seem like a testament to themselves because
they are strongest when they band with one another and rely on those they are
closest to that understand them. They have endured, in spite of the world
telling them for centuries not to.
The second topic is on the language of Catholics
with regard to the way they’ll call each other “Brother” or “Sister” if they’re
a nun or a monk.
It seems kind of sad that these names get passed
around like “Brother Thomas” as more of a title of recognition naming station.
“Mother Superior” or “Father Abbott” implies a higher ranking position.
And when you think about it, these names originated
from a sense of purpose towards FAMILY. That you could turn to someone within
that faith and not see a stranger or a colleague, but a member of a sort of
extended family. There was the acknowledgement that God intended for mankind to
treat each other as family.
And I like it. I like wandering around the office
and looking at people in cubicles beside mine and thinking, “That’s a sister.”
There’s this distancing that gets removed when you look at people that way.
There’s a closeness and a humanity that gets reinstated.
Speaking as someone who has struggled with social
anxiety disorder and trusting people, it makes you feel at ease. Like you can
breathe among another person as yourself, not a title or a suite.
The last is a little more troubling to explain, but
also feels very important to acknowledge. It’s a pattern I’ve seen emerging.
Before Moses and Christ were born there was a vast infanticide and murdering of
infants. There was also vast enslavement. In their time the world wasn’t
globally connected as it is now and the places they derived from seemed like
worlds unto themselves.
Now we have this “global” situation where rape
slavery is extensive beyond measure and there are places where infanticide and
the murdering of children is becoming systemic. But for me there is a feminine
tone to this one. It’s mostly girls and women that are being abused and
mistreated now. I say this speaks to a coming of a great female, spiritual
leader.
I feel women rising. Especially black women in
particular.
There is a grace and a strength they're refusing to be
denied.
There is a spiritual awakening happening within women.
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