I think The Bloggess is an inspiration to women …and people who blog …and writer’s searching for expression EVERYWHERE. She’s wacky and funny with a wonderful talent with photos and interent tweaking. But she’s also insightful and sometimes soul-rippingly personal its a testimonial to her bravery.
This blog… (as wonderful as her Red Dress posting), to me… is the the most amazing example of the core meaning of the Holiday Season. And I say Holiday Season instead of Christmas because its the core beliefs of the Christian religion we admire not the crazy faith of believing the miracles it took the people of 1 AD to belief the basic teachings of love-thy-fellow-man that Jesus taught.
Today, many religions have similar beliefs and end up wasting a lot of their energy in persuading others that their version is MORE correct than another religions. So many times a church’s money goes to send people to another country to “mission” the people of that country to that church’s belief system. I am adamantly against this. I look around at the “NEED” that exists right here. A need that money can help fix and grumble that perhaps any church should just evangelize with good works and let others ask and skip the whole “mission” fiasco. In this day with the internet, if I want to know about a religion.. there is tons of information.
But I digress. Because The Bloggess has managed to accidentally stumble into the true meaning of giving with a simple posting. Try to read this without getting tearful, I dare ya!