When weekday mornings roll around the validity of whatever form of worship we participate in on the weekend is tested.
Synagogue, temple, church, wide-open spaces; conservative, modern, orthodox, mainline, fire and brimstone, or new age, our religious and faith traditions are tested for the rest of the week.
We can sing and dance all we desire and then nullify its validity with gossip and cheating.
Piousness is easy to fake.
It’s tax returns that challenge our respect for what’s good and right and wholesome.
Are you kind, merciful, generous and forgiving?
I’d suggest these are pivotal values in all faith and religious traditions.
Does your weekend faith tradition translate into open and honest trading and communicating with those who are “outside” your religious family? Are you open and kind and forgiving to your blood relatives?
Again, pivotal concepts in all traditions.
Be assured, I ask myself these questions, very regularly. There are times I wish I was a little more ready to let myself off the hook.
Hypocrisy doesn’t sit easily with me — especially when it is I who is the hypocrite.
Thank you to the people who have already responded to my request for help with the Birth Mothers Acknowledgement Dinner. Please email Shirley@ShirleyWilliams.co.za for more information.
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