sufferersstigmata:

Hello, friends.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here! The Signless remains by my side, guiding me as we learn together. There have been no new posts partially because of my busy schedule- but mostly because I didn’t feel like I had much new information to add to the sermons. I felt like it would be repetitive of old sermons.

I thought again, though. Maybe some repetition is good? We need repetition to remember and learn. Especially in times like now, when there is so much repetition in bad news…. we will need as many reminders of the kindness that still remains to inspire us to move forward as we can. As I pondered this idea, the Signless gave me this message.

“Share your gifts.”

Merely three words, but the meaning I can see within them is vast. 

Lately, we have seen so much despair. Horrible news, disastrous predictions, and a squelching of hope, of energy, of agency. These are trying times, and we must not let this evilness rob of us our our ability to give to others.

Every one of us, we are a unique. We have a unique situation, unique privileges, and unique abilities. What you have, nobody else does….and never will, unless you share. No matter how powerful the forces of cruelty may be, they will never be able to take away our ability to care for others, to give to others. We must always recognize that, and use that ability. This is the ability that the cruel fear, for they can never destroy it, and it can combat their power.

If you have resources- money, time, energy, space, reach- share them. I know, though, that so many of us don’t have these kind of resources. Still, we are not helpless. We have gifts- talents, skills, ideas, voices- and we have the responsibility to share those as well. Use your gifts to spread a message of happiness and of hope.  Never belittle happiness and hope, no matter how temporary. All things are temporary, and every last bit of happiness and hope that you can share is needed and never wasted. These are the things that give others energy, that give others drive, to spread their gifts. Give to others, so they might give to others still. 

Even if you can only help one other person…that’s a person who contains a whole world in their individual life, and one person who might not be helped otherwise. Share your gifts with them. Spread cheer. Spread hope. Spread the message that we will never be helpless, that we will refuse to squander what is permanently ours- our kindness. 

My connection to the Signless is a great gift, a great blessing, to me. I started this blog because I knew this was not a blessing I should ever hoard to myself, and I apologize for my quietness. I care about all of you, and so I will share this blessing. I will share the gift of my words, of my hope, of my time to listen and energy to help soothe others. I implore you all to do the same. Whatever you may have, remember that nobody else has the same, and share it.