Fresh off our Transgender Day of Remembrance and post-election, here’s my top 10 things to focus upon as we move onward, forward, into the future.
10. Pray for wisdom for world, national, state, and local leadership.
9. Choose your words intentionally and use them to find places of unity and opportunities of peace.
8. Volunteer your time, talent, and treasure to work for justice and equity.
7. Listen for opportunities to help steer conversations and help others discern.
6. Speak the truth in love and maintain integrity for yourself; Be passionate in your efforts to provide dignity for others.
5. Be a thermostat not a thermometer; set the pace, the temperature, the flow. (MLK Jr.)
4. Know yourself and take mental health breaks; breathe deeply, laugh often, and sing loudly.
3. Accept finite disappointment but don’t lose infinite hope. (MLK, Jr.)
2. Don’t be tolerant of intolerance.
1. Recognize the holy within others and yourself and treat others as you wish to be treated – Bee the church!
Shalom, Paul