Rokinrev in a Different Light

The necklace I wear most days

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness and understanding

According to Galatians 5 they are the fruits of the Spirit of G-d indwelling. The picture above is my reminder of what staying present in a world full of war, illusion, anger and hatred means to me. It means hanging onto hope, breathing before losing it, believing in love, being peaceful and persistent. And the interfaith cross kind of is the leader.

Funny story. Most of you know I’ve been divorced almost a year. I collected most of my jewelry in a clean sweep of my old living arrangements tossing it into different boxes figuring I’d get to it eventually. Poking around the other day I found my persistentance tag, many years old, sitting at the bottom of my pen cup holder in the bedroom and slid it behind its siblings on the necklace.

Why? Because without persistentance I would have never survived these past two years of homelessness, anger, misunderstanding and moving forward. Without persistentance the idea of G-d telling Isaiah that “I am creating something new. There it is! Do you see it? I have put roads in deserts, streams in thirsty lands” ( Isaiah 43.19)

These tags and this cross are constantly reminding me that I am a new person and that G-d isn't done even if when the whole thing fell apart I was ready to step in front of an 18 wheeler coming down the road. I am active in my queer community, on the board of my tenants’ association, representative of community at a recent Heath Justice Conference at the local hospital….

I AM hopeful, I breathe because I believe, I try to remain peaceful but I am powered by persistentance in what G-d has place me on earth to do. I wasn't supposed to be as my mother was told that because of polio she couldn't have children. ( She has 2 daughters)

Guess G-d had other plans

“Behold I am doing a new thing …. Can you not see it?

🙏Be safe out there and remember that there is always hope 🙏