Truth Be Told

Where is the truth?  Some say never in our history have we had such a difficult time discerning the truth.  I am not sure.  Initially I think yes, because even in science what was awful for you years ago is now proven to be the opposite.  Researchers lied to get their product to profit.  Have your babies sleep on their backs or stomachs.  There is another planet in our universe.  I read Scientific Journal when I travel, it's a thing, and Quantum physics is mind blowing, you should read a bit on that.  I love that that science and our spirituality seem to be converging closer than ever before.  Still, the sheer volume of so called knowledge is overwhelming, how does one determine truth for themselves.

Our own country's history taught today does not take into account new facts and we are not that old.  That one baffles me, we can't seem to fix the books going back a couple of hundred years?  Plus let's look at education, teachers have opinions, they relay those to students by word or body language, on purpose or not, good or bad, it can influence the truth.  We jam learning into a one way box, yet we humans are as different as can be, seems our educational system should accommodate that by now.  Look at your own family history, five kids, each with very different views on how they grew up and what happened.  We don't see things the same way.

Our courts know for a fact that people can't remember shit.  Time and again, we incarcerate innocent people.  Lie detectors work on some, not all.  Judges can be corrupt too, so can police, so can fireman, so can service men and women, the list goes on and on.  All those we like to hold up as a model of ethics and  humanity, are not all as they seem.  We have a tendency to want to glorify people.  Every person has value.  Even if i don't agree with you, and there are many of you, can I still see value?

Religion is a whole myriad of fact and fiction and interpretations.  I don't care what religion you are or are not, human decency, empathy and loving kindness tell me all I need to know about a person, and how I choose to interact.  The rest is between you and your God.  We love to judge everyone and everything, and yet look at us, look inside ourselves.  Can you honestly say you have never lied, never contemplated something awful in anger, been wrong, very, very wrong.  Yet others still love us.  Why cant we extend the same to those who oppose our views.  Your "moments" of greatness or failure don't define who you are in total, and that is the truth.  I have heard only two emotions drive our actions, Love or Fear, the more I contemplate that, the more it makes sense.  We are all in the same boat, same planet. I love to quote a dear love filled friend, who also quotes this "Row, row, row YOUR boat, GENTLY down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, LIFE IS BUT A DREAM".  If you believe in your soul, and that this experience is part of your souls everlasting journey, well why make it so hard!

I am sucking wind just like the rest of you.  I had a moment once, I left my newborn son in his car seat in my driveway and drove away. I was on my way to see my dying Mom, hormones and sleep deprivation, plus the stress of my Mom getting ready to leave me, I was not in my right mind.  A block away, my hubby calls, told me, and I almost got ill, the terror of that moment still lingers, I could have ran over him backing out.  So months later when I read about a women who left her child in a hot car and they suffered the most horrible outcome, my heart poured out for her.  Yes, my initial reaction was how could she, then I recalled my moment. By Love's grace, I did not end up on the front page of the newspaper.  Look at all the moments we have, they encompass such a wide path of truth and perception, sometimes you have to wonder is this life really real!   Knowing change is the only constant, that energy is our constant in some changing form, we must be willing to go with the flow, let it take it's course. 

I don't have to be right, you don't have to be right, we are still loved in all our conflict, our imperfections, I fight my little ego wanting to being right!  My perceptions will surely not be yours, it is impossible, this is our unique journey, because we are.  So I try and dwell in that love that connects us all,  till I feel it, know it and can offer the grace I have been given.  We are a changing..... but all so beautifully us.