Moving On to Something Important

There was a prayer at chapel one night that really touched my heart. It got to me especially because of the year I have had, the relationships I have developed and all the ways I have grown. The prayer was about ordaining homosexual clergy in different branches of the Christian church. The plea was to move on to something important.

I have admittedly never understood the arguments and divisions in the Christian church. I think that everyone should be free to believe and act in a way that their own conscious dictates as opposed to treaties that were written centuries ago by the members of the church. No one should have a right to dictate the beliefs of another person's conscious. My own personal feelings seem to have little or no impact on the world in which I live. There will always be those in the world who seek to impose their own point of view on those around them as opposed to allowing the basic rights of freedom of thought and action.

If the freedom to choose was always allowed, there would be no need for such rigid divisions in the church. We would not argue about who is worthy of being loved and who is not. The important part is my own plea for the church to move onto something important. Move on to the acceptance and right of all to love and be loved, the right for all to be cared for and have enough. The sad thing is that many people would prefer to argue about who to keep out of the church instead of who to let. Maybe that is really the important thing to think about.