I am sharing this post, and hope that you would click thru to see the story and video. It is a fabulous example first of all of how easily and literally without awareness it is for cis-gendered people to do things to transgender people which they would never ever even think to do to cis-gendered people.
Secondly, it is also a great example of how to handle things with Grace and Kindness…far too often I find that we are so very sensitive and hyper aware of any slight, no matter how small. It seems in our culture today that regardless of gender, sexuality, political persuasion, or religion we are by and large eager to take offense and cannot wait to grab those arrows of offense and stab our own selves with them! It is is if we want to be infected with that poison, and then we turn around and start trying to infect others
No wonder that zombie movies and shows are so popular now…they are a metaphor for a process in our time by which it seems that we make ourselves and one another into spiritual zombies, rampaging about biting and devouring one another.
Let’s all just stop! Step back. Take a breath…and then simply
be kind…be merciful…be full of grace.
Imagine…no not a world where there is no heaven, or religion, or any of the drivel that John Lennon sang about, for that very philosophy was already tried by the communists of Russia and Stalin’s regime, to the tune of nearly 100,000,000 deaths…that same philosophy was adhered to by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia…
No…imagine a world where each person actively sought to just be kind…to just show mercy…to just be full of grace…
What is required? Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly, and love your neighbor as yourself.
See these two amazing human beings, and glean…maybe you too will be inspired as was I to strive to be a kinder and more gentle person.
Blessings,
Charissa
Charissa's Grace Notes 
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