Confirming our faithfulness to our values, relationships, and causes asks us to pause, reflect, and re-affirm that we are still on the course we initially chose for the reasons we originally believed.
The concept of out of many, one is universal and timeless and enthusiastically adopted, except where disunity and disharmony is used to weaponize bigotry and hatred in the service of greed and power.
When we get past skin-deep cosmetics, all people are the same specie expressing minor genetic variations. We are the same race in body, mind, and spirit.
The motivational speakers first have lived through their story and learned something about it, and then,their walk can inform ours. They walk, then they talk.
Conflict often grows from a faint ripple—that something is different from what is expected, or usual. The perceived ripple can be either conscious or intuitive, or both.
I gazed into the starry night skies of both mountains and plains unpolluted by urban lights and mouthed the words to \my favorite hymn, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed.