Every day
Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day, Breast Cancer Awareness Day, Internataional Disaster Reduction Day, National M&M Day, US Navy Birthday, and 31 other national and international holidays. A single date can have so many attachments to it. In grade school, Oct 13th was celebrated as Columbus Day, but as history has revealed Columbus not only "sailed the ocean blue" discovering America, but he also brutalized and enslaved the indigenous people who had welcomed him. It is interesting to me that a single event can highlight both good and evil, joy and sadness, hope and disappointment. From the garden of Eden, when the first humans were deceived by a snake (Satan's lie) and the law of God was transgressed. Mankind was then able experience comprehend truth and error, transgression and forgiveness, joy and sadness, birth and death. These opposites continue throughout our lives. We are wounded and are healed, we laugh and we cry, we love and long for, no w...
