What's your assignment?

My assignment is my GAYNESS! Gay is a major aspect of my life and I am blessed to have it and to share it and to offer encouragement to others who wonder whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

TESTIFY! Gratitude for Gayness


I was talking to a friend of mine today. We were talking about my project which is to earn my Doctorate in Spiritual Science. What is Spiritual Science? It's a good idea for me to explain what that's about. At first blush, it seems like an oxymoron, but here goes. We take a spirutal concept and to apply it to our lives and to measure, using SCIENTIFIC methods, the positive shift. Once we observe it working for us, the next step is to devise a repeatability study and to enlist the cooperation of some friends (some can be those who already accept the premise that spirituality has validity in their lives but some of our test subjects must be relatively new to the concepts -- a neophyte -- a sincere skeptic -- someone who might have some doubts about this whole thing! And then, I write my Treatise about that and ultimately I will have earned my Doctorate in Spiritual Science (D.S.S.) I've been studying this for a number of years so far.

As I described this to my friend, I used the example of applying the spirutal concepts of GRATITUDE (counting one's blessings) and ACCEPTANCE to the awareness of one's gayness. That certainly continues to be a source of great upliftment in my life. And I elaborated by suggesting that it could apply to ANY aspect of one's life just as well. So my friend asked me, "What about my FAT?" Well, I didn't have a good answer for her right away because I don't necessarily agree that the acceptance of one's fat is a universal goal. So I went inside (spiritual exercises - an active form of meditation) and asked for some wisdom for a valid response that virtually ANYONE might use.

I found a difference! Gayness is a condition of life. It is a factor that can plague or menace one's life and it is also a factor that is unchangeable. (Feel free to engage me over THAT assertion... I'm ready for that!) On the other hand, the notion of "fat" gave me an image of slop on a plate.

Glop on a Plate
You would be holding a nice plate and, as you go through the lunch line, a huge mass of heavy stuff is glopped onto your plate. It sits there, perhaps quivering but it just seems like a heavy load on your plate (huge and daunting pile of mashed potatoes, above, represents excess weight).

But that's NOT how I experience gayness. Gayness, as I've suggested, is the INNER GYROSCOPE which is perpetually guiding each individual in a direction. We can oppose the direction of that inner gyroscope at our peril but that seems like a very different image from the big wad of corpulence. The similarity is that both are issues... but whether the issues are sitting there (glop) or a part of our daily lives and our activities and our inspirations is really what this is about.

Here's the way I can suggest applying GRATITUDE to both matters.
1) Recognize that we are each on a path and that our Creator has given us lessons in life. How can we approach these lessons?
2) My suggestion is to find ACCEPTANCE and GRATITUDE for the LESSONS that come with each step in life.

One might say, "WOW! God cares so much about ME that HE gave me this lesson. THANK YOU! I'll do my best with it!" This way, gayness can be embraced with gratitude and fat can be embraced with gratitude. The important thing to remember is that WHO WE ARE is not our gayness nor our fat nor our occupation nor our religion nor our gender nor our clothing nor our health. Each one of these things is a condition and each condition is a blessing from above. It's like our ASSIGNMENT! We may have been waiting for an assignment and this is it. When I was a child, I remember being BORED. Well, now that I have an assignment, I am no longer bored. Instead, I'm engaged and GRATEFUL to be on purpose with this lesson which is my path toward my own divinity. Whatever I do with my assignment, whether I take the right treatment plan or the wrong treatment plan, at least I'm doing something about it and I will eventually find the right direction to go. But doing something and taking the steps toward embracing my assignment with gratitude will lead me where I want to go.