Words have power. They can make you feel amazing, make you feel awful, make you feel high, make you feel low. There a words you like and words you hate. Just think about how words make you feel and make other people feel.

At some point someone will have said something to you that has cut straight to your core. These words will have made you feel small, worthless and that there is no point to your existence. There will also have been times where someone has said something to you that has made you feel absolutely amazing and lifted you so much that you feel nothing can bring you down.

I feel that as we are all one whether LGBT+, straight, black, white, sky blue pink with yellow dots, spiritualist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim or what ever we should all choose our words carefully and think about how they could make other people feel. Pick the right words, the nice words, the ones that pick people up and make them feel great. I think this is the best use of everyone’s power.

There is something going on at the moment where some people think that political correctness has gone mad. That you can’t say this or can’t say that for fear of offending someone somewhere. It is not political correctness it’s just being a nice person. We should all try to be nice people. If you say something and someone pulls you up because it’s offensive to someone else, look at it as a learning experience. Apologies, take the message on board, take it to heart and try not to make the mistake again.

Again, it’s not political correctness it’s being nice.

Back to words you love and words you hate. There are a few words I like, popadom, I really like this word. It just feels like a fun word to say and has a fun sound to it. One of the words I hate and it really annoys me is pupdates. It’s on one of the adverts about sponsoring guide dogs for the blind. I have no objection to helping support blind people and sponsoring guide dogs. It’s just that one word that irritates me and makes me feel annoyed. I have no idea why it annoys me but it just does. Maybe it’s a deep down thing that I’d love a support dog, I don’t know but could be that.

There are some people that hate the word moist, it’s one that doesn’t bother me. I find it a useful descriptive word, admittedly it’s not one I use regularly but I use it every now and then. But like I said earlier there are words I love and words I hate. We should all try to use nice words, amazing, brilliant, awesome. If you just put you are ……………….. in front of them, think how good it could make someone feel or how good it could make you feel. Be nice and just big someone else up. The more people that feel good the better. If everyone feels good it would start to destroy the hate and fear and bring in the love and the light.

Something else I saw this morning while reading the news. It was an article about protests at schools in Birmingham. People are protesting because children are being taught that it’s ok to be LGBT+. The program of lessons is called No Outsiders. One thing that I found really annoying or distressing was there was a picture of someone holding up a sign that said “we’re not homophobic people”. They are trying to say they aren’t homophobic while protesting about LGBT+ things being taught. Protesting about LGBT+ themed lessons is in its self homophobic.

No outsiders is an amazing project and is being received warmly in the rest of the country. It’s teaching kids that it’s ok to be different. It is OK. Teaching people especially kids that difference is good and ok will bring everyone together and will remove hate and division. It may take a while but the message will get through.

Religion seems to be the root cause of hate and division. This is because it’s spent so much time and energy saying that difference is wrong and should not be accepted. This has led to some areas of society taking it away from religion and into the mainstream. And trying to force their deluded ways and beliefs on to everyone else. This is where the yobs, hate groups and the far right have come from. The devision they have caused and are continuing to cause with hate is just wrong. Like the brexit situation at the moment. Lead by people saying that working together for the betterment of people is wrong. Working together is the only way things will get better. By working together it will stop wars, and stop devision. If you think about it, it really is the best way to go. Religions have got it wrong. Everyone comes from the same place and are equal. Difference is not wrong, equality is good and working together will bring good things and we’ll be able to reap the rewards.

Anyway enough of my inane ramblings for now. Peace out. And I’ll leave you all with blessings of love and light.