The Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye in Scottland
Shaun, this is the place I told you about. Where is it in relationship to where you are?
I have a Pinterest board entitled “places I want to go one day”. It’s kind of a “bucket list” destination or dream board. I LOVE to travel. It’s probably my favorite thing to do and I’ve always dreamed of going places abroad but have never been out of my country! Well, besides Mexico.
Yesterday, I Skyped with a friend in Scotland. It was amazing to me to be sitting on my back deck in the middle of America, listening to my birds and knowing that I was able to bring Scotland SO close to me. My girls were laughing because of Shaun’s accent, they thought he spoke a different language! lol It’s strange to me that we both speak English, the King’s language, yet the dialect makes it so hard to understand. It didn’t take me long to understand him though. I was also impressed with how different the UK is from the USA. The differences in religion and the extreme hatred that goes on in Western Scotland and I’m guessing in Ireland between the Catholic’s and the Protestants. They actually KILL each other over there in the name of Religion. THEY say in the name of God but I’m QUITE certain that God’s going to “smite” them down for killing each other in His name! For shame. I’m Catholic, by birth, and I’m ASHAMED of the Catholic’s who would kill a Protestant in the name of our religion.
Over here, in the USA, one of the our constitutional rights is “Freedom of Religion”. For the most part, we respect each other. Oh there’s a lot of talking behind each other’s backs. That’s about it though. The worst I’ve ever experienced is when I went to my husband’s family’s church in Texas. I went to Sunday School and I was alone. It’s a Southern Baptist Church. The Sunday School teacher began talking about the Pope and how he’s going to go to hell and how ALL Catholic’s are probably going to go to hell. WTF??? Don’t they know that this is the EXACT reason that people aren’t attracted to Christians? Out of respect for my husband’s family, I didn’t create the scene I’d wanted to create. I sat there and seethed. Later, my husband’s family heard ALL about it. You can trust and believe that. Not that I was blaming them, just that I wanted them to know how wrong I felt it was for their leader to say something like he did… not to mention the “Amen’s” I heard from the rest of the Sunday school class. “Amen’s” coming from some people I truly loved and respected. My family told me I should have pulled the Sunday School teacher aside and tell him that I’m Catholic and didn’t appreciate what he was saying. I SHOULD have but I knew me, and I knew that I probably would have NOT been eloquent in my speech. I would have ripped him up, chewed him up and spit him out. THAT wouldn’t have honored my husband’s family. So I let it go and forgave. Something that was difficult.
My point being that we ALL live in this world. We’re all united in that we’re HUMAN. It doesn’t matter what color of skin we have, if we’re male or female, it doesn’t matter what religion we are. God made us all. Not ONE of us is better than the other.
Now, can’t we all just get along? Much love to all of you and have a VERY Happy Friday!
And That's All She Wrote! 