PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Krakow, Poland hasn't had a full-time rabbi
on
duty since the events of World War II decimated the once-thriving
Jewish
population. Recently that changed with the arrival of Rabbi Avraham
Flaks
from Israel. He has promised to help build solidarity in the small
Jewish
community that has arisen since the fall of Communism and the end of
the Polish government's unofficial policy of anti-Semitism. I foresee a
comparable development in your own life, Pisces. You are poised to
experience a reawakening of spiritual impulses that have been dormant
for
some time. If you follow the clues you'll be given, it's quite possible
that a
teacher, leader, or other inspirational influence will come to catalyze
further excitement.

You a Pisces too?

Yep, we need to continue th legacy of love. Condemnation only comfirms distance. Unconditional comfort and caring confirms the solidarity of humaniity.

well put!

You are right about fear. Opportunities to rise above it or fall victim to it arise every day.

An excellent post. You are right, we do still have racial problems today. I believe things are better but I also know that I haven't experienced racial discrimination myself so it wouldn't be fair to just assume something. I've had plenty of discrimination as a woman and even as a middle-class citizen. But I try to find the good in everything.
My son worked the aftermath of Katrina. My extended family members lost homes and had homes damaged. My son cried over the deaths and when my younger son called and told him I was headed to southern Louisiana to help, he immediately became the soldier he was and told me no way. He even pulled the guilt thing on me. Telling me he can't do his job and help his people in his own country (instead of the Middle East this time)if he's worrying about me.
I know there are still problems with racial discrimination.
I see miracles all around me. I see a young black boy riding his bicycle in the parking lot and proudly puffing up his chest and telling me he survived Hurricane Katrina. I see three beautiful black girls getting on a bus to go to school and one of them told me when I took her to the movies that her family decided to stay here. I see people being welcomed into our community who were victims of both Katrina and Rita...shell-shocked yet recovering.
I have a sister who's seriously in love with an African-American man and my younger son dated the prettiest young lady in high school of another race. The ONLY thing I want is to know that whoever my sister and my children end up with, that the person has a faith in God.
Your post is exceptionally well-written. I can see your passion both in it and in the comments on my post. I focused on the subject of blaming God because that was the part I found offensive. I don't deny racial problems exist. I do deny someone claiming to be a spokesman for God...I believe that to be presumptuous.
You have an excellent blog here. :)

thank you- i also apreciate your blog- especially for sharing your undeniable, unshakable faith-

yeah- we have had our share of false prophets claiming to be spokesmen for God. I'm glad their idiocy or at least the idiocy of their statements (as in the case with Nagin, otherwise a man with a not so bad record) is exposed.
blame is not the way to peace that for sure.

I too am a woman, a feminist by my own definition ( a woman who accepts her calling regardless of what's in fashion) so I am often adding feminine to the speeches of good men like King...we can't have freedom for some and call it freedom...brother sister man woman we are all one cracks n scratches n all.

I meant to put my name but forgot...Monica