prescription for living It’s The Potential
else I think you hate parts of yourself too. I hope you are capable of loving everyone. Again I didn’t say like. Love is a wonderful weapon which eliminates enemies and is blind to faults. Try it and you’ll see. The origin of the word evil comes from losing one’s way. I believe evil is when we lose our way and perform acts which hurt other living things. When we are truly being creative and our acts are life enhancing we will not perform acts which can be defined as evil. Who is the most important person, to you, who has lived in your
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lifetime? If you didn’t answer me; no, not me, meaning you are the most important and meaningful person to yourself, then you have a problem. How and why should anyone else on this planet be a more significant factor in your life than you? So get it together and acknowledge yourself even if your parents and others did not. Okay now that my sermon is over it reminds me of something and someone who impressed me. I was a speaker at a relay for life presentation in a local town and so was Congresswoman Rosa De Lauro, who shared she had experienced cancer about twenty years ago. As we were waiting to speak I asked her how she could stand politics. I told her when I was involved in it I always became so frustrated by the eternal committee meetings and the time it took to accomplish something meaningful I resigned because I felt so frus- trated by the process. I have to add, as my friend Ashley Montague said, “If you’re ever going to die, do it at a faculty meeting. No one will notice the transition.” Well, Rosa turned to me and said, “It’s the potential.” She im- pressed me as she went on to tell me about many significant laws which are now in effect though it took her years to get them through Congress. That’s a word I think we all need to make a part of our lives when we are facing difficult times and even life threatening afflictions. It is what has kept me working with cancer patients and
ho can you hate? Who can you love? What is evil? I would hope you answer that you can’t hate anyone and remem- ber I didn’t say like I said hate. If you can hate someone
others because I know they are not statistics and have the potential for better than expected results.
I am thinking about another lesson from Rosa. Why didn’t God make a perfect world? How would you answer that? I saw an article in the paper about a charity Rosa set up offering scholarships to help students graduating from high school and it comes from her personal income. She still takes home only the salary she earned her first year in Congress and all the raises given to Congress she has put into this charity. To me this speaks to how meaningful our actions can be when we share our love in the many ways available to us. A perfect world wouldn’t require actions of this sort and I thought would make life meaningless.
Bernie holds a support group in Simsbury at Wisdom of the Ages
the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9pm. Wisdom of the Ages, a special place to nurture your spiritual side. It's filled with items to calm the mind, heal the body & empower your spirit. They also pro- vide massages & monthly meditation classes. Wisdom of the Ages is owned by Bernie's son & daughter- in-law, Keith & Jane Siegel. Lo- cated at 1408 Hopmeadow St. Simsbury. Please call for info or to register for Bernie's group. (860) 651-1172, www.wisdomoftheages. biz,
berniesiegelmd.com. See ad on page 22. Bernie also runs a Woodbridge Support Group which meets the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each month at Coachman's Square, Bradley Road, Woodbridge, CT. Contact: Lucille Ranciato at 203-288-2839 or email her at
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