Sympathy

As when any talented celebrity dies, there is tons of press surrounding the death of Whitney Houston. Today the funeral was on no less than 5 of my channels. Everybody comes out when there is a celebrity death: the relatives, even the ones most distantly related, the friends, the clergy and of course, the news stations, who have scrambled to pull files, sound bytes, photo, videos, rap sheets...anything they can get their hands on. They prattle endlessly, like they knew and cared about this person. When I began watching today, a minister got up to speak, and he was talking about how long or short his sermon would be, depending on audience participation. One got the feeling he was "warming up the crowd." He started telling some jokes, and the audience clearly enjoyed what he was saying. There were smiles, snickers and outright laughter. But do you know what I noticed? Two faces, sitting right behind him. The faces of Whitney's mother, and her daughter. These faces were not smiling or laughing. These faces were clearly in pain. These faces reflected sadness, grief and loss. I got the feeling the little daughter would rather not have all these glaring eyes upon her.My heart and sympathy goes out to the people who genuinely loved Whitney and are grieving, especially her young daughter. I hope she can appreciate the legacy that her mother left the world.

Happy Love

Today is February 1st, the month of love. I have been thinking about love lately and how people show it.As a person of faith, I know I have to forgive much because I have been forgiven much. Where do you draw the line though when how you are treated is not okay with you? Is it possible to remove yourself from a situation without animosity and bitterness? I am in the midst of a hurtful situation. Things were written to me that were ridiculous and untrue.I was blamed for out and out lies. I have to believe the people committing these acts thought they were doing the right thing, even though if they had taken over 2 minutes to think through their actions, I think they would have realized how unnceccesary it was..These are people I thought were friends and I trusted. While I don't feel animosity toward them, my love for them is gone. I do not feel they had my best interests at heart. Now occasionally I hear a message on 'not being sensitive'. Is it sensitive to feel excluded? Is it sensitive to be accused of falsehoods? I don't know. I only know my personality doesn't want to open myself up to them anymore. We are taught to weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice. I have people in my life who I have been there for them when they wept, trying to comfort and care for them Yet when I wept, they were nowhere around. I have rejoiced with them when good things came their way, yet when I rejoiced, nothing. It has taken me a long time to realize the words these people say do not match up with their actions. Someone cheated me out of a substantial amount of money. I don't think I could do that to someone. I am learning I have to cut these unhealthy relationships out of my life. I read something today that talked about focusing on the beauty in your life. That is where I am.I can let someone else be the judge for these people, I just want to focus on the beauty and love that I have in my life. I wish you lots of love in your life.