A Creator-based® Life

Family & Relationships: ‘Peace in Diversity'  #2 Different is not Deficient.   We are different by design. Immersed in our culture with all of the media influences and business of life, it’s easy to be swayed into opinions and expectations in our relationships. What did your culture of origin dictate? Our childhood experiences and modeling, like clay, blends colors and categories into something that feels permanent.  (It’s not, and we can help you change it). What categories were you taught in society, school, or home? What core beliefs were modeled in your childhood?   We each have family culture, community, church, and educational cultures.  They all impress upon us in their own way the way things “should” be.  This impacts our current family and relationship expectations. We form thoughts of how our family and relationships “should” be.  But are they accurate? And what happens when the family or relationship is different from our picture? Trouble.  Judgment. Distance.

 It’s Labor Day, a day created by the U.S. government to celebrate all those who labor in the cause of building and creating in our country.  Originally founded by labor unions in the late 1800s, Labor Day was designed to recognize the American Worker. Pretty much, that’s every one of us.  It’s a day off- to celebrate and enjoy the fruits of your labor. For some of us, that means barbecues and time with family and friends.  For others, it’s just another work day, but either way, it’s a day to remember that you are incredibly good at your work. All of your life, you have been creating, and look at all you have done! Look at the lives you have touched and the people that smile because of you.  Come on, over a lifetime, I know you have made others smile.  It’s time for a Labor Day pause to honor you and your work- your Creator-based® Cause. Your cause is uniquely yours and yours alone.  There are clues to your cause planted all through your journey of life.  Maybe you are never happ