Change

Change
Weblog January 30, 2008
By Chris DiGiorgio

In these days it is hard for us to escape the word change. Change has been used in the political discourse these last couple of weeks. But, how about change in reference to religion and spirituality? A constant theme of this blog is to talk about finding a religion or spirituality that embraces you. Part of this religious/spiritual theme is to find something you are comfortable with. Many of us come from religious backgrounds where we have felt rejected. At some point there was a change in our perception on whether we wanted to accept the intolerance that religious institution put on us or not. We had to change direction. We had to look inward to see if we can accept the status quo or change. Many of us decided why bother? Why stay with organized religion? What purpose does it serve? I put this out to you, just as you changed you perception on the religion you were brought up in, you can change the perception of how you feel about GOD. GOD does not hate you, GOD created you in his own image. GOD is omnipotent, so therefore GOD did not make a mistake. GOD made us so GOD could show the world all the magnificent diversity GOD is. That message is the true message of change. We must change our belief because they were inspired by people who do not speak for GOD. In the end, that is what it is all about, you are blaming GOD for what people have done. I believe strongly that all of us are agents of GOD. We walk around knowingly or unknowingly doing divine work. Sometimes that divine work is pushing people out so they have a clearer understanding of what lies ahead. LGBT folk have it within us to remake ourselves to change ourselves because we had to do this in our coming out process. For years many of us were in the closet, we had a period of internal reflection on how our life was suppose to be, and with finding ourselves we blossom in to something that is truly authentic for ourselves. To me that is the real message of spirituality, we have our authentic selves within us, however it is having the courage to move forward, make the change and create the special spiritual beings we are. We did one step at a time in coming out, now we can have a second coming out and that is coming out with our heart to our spiritual selves.