Defining the Decalogue Day 5

Honour thy father and thy mother Does this mean following their example or understanding their history, and choosing which parts to incorporate into your own behaviors?

Defining the Decalogue Day 4

Remember the sabbath day Shouldn't every day be devoted to doing the work of your God (Sacred Spirit, etc)? Do you celebrate a sabbath? What day of the week? What makes the sabbath different? How do you spend the sabbath?

Defining the Decalogue Day 3

Not take the LORD's name in vain What does this mean to you? Which names by which The Sacred Spirit is called in the many scriptures? When you wear symbols of your faith for all to see, or you careful to set the example of what this faith means? Is it "in Vain" that people use their religious symbols on advertising materials? 

Defining the Decalogue Day 2

No graven images or likenesses Does your "God" (or whatever name The Sacred Spirit in your life may use) have a physical image in your mind? When you commune with this Sacred Spirit, what picture do you have in your mind's eye?

Defining the Decalogue Day 1

It seems so easy to pretend that we're all in this together when we all say the same words, but words have different meaning for every person. I'd like to ask what other people think about what we refer to as The Ten Commandments. You all know more than you ever asked for about how I define everything.

I just feel like I'm not understanding something that I should about other people's interpretations. For this reason, I'm putting out a question a day for the next ten days.

I know that different religions word and number the commandments differently, but they all seem to point to the same rules. These are taken from Wikipedia.

Thank you, in advance, for helping me with this effort.

I am the LORD thy God How do you describe God?

To Teach Is the Essence of Humanity

It took a while to identify our joint father in Abraham;
He was certainly not presented as a perfect father or man.
Because he gave away the mother and a child of his loins,
We've continued to, in opposing directions, keep going.
When will we wake up, as a family, and choose to go back,
All the way before we pretended to knowledge we still lack?

True Buddhists don't kill; they embrace all of earthly life;
We, as Abraham's children, should be equally tired of strife.
Our ancestors made many mistakes; it is time to forgive them;
We have it in our power to define our own roles as humans.
There will always be base animals who seek to destroy
Anything that they see another family or person enjoy.

Isn't it time that we stop using these animals as our example?
Our history as humanity should have examples most ample,
Of the ways to provide for peace for our own families;
Protection from jealousy and greed our greatest human need.
The poor, honest workers must rise up with those
Who are, of responsible compassion, for them disposed.

We must pledge to support only those who will work,
Not the the rulers' drones who, their own strengths, shirk.
Our challenge is to refuse government support for our faith;
This support has been the downfall of our human race.
The Jew, those who follow Jesus, and the Muslim
Are all taught that we're meant to be a family of all humans.

Teach, teach, and teach some more, if you have a talent;
This is the role for which humanity was actually sent.
We do humankind no favors when we control by fear;
This should be, by now, to humans, abundantly clear.
Anyone who will not learn from others is surely a fool,
And they will always be the controlling despots' tools.

Do not worry if your wisdom seems to fall on deaf ears;
It may not be in this generation that anyone hears.
You have done your utmost, if as a learned human,
You've passed down your knowledge to a young man or woman.
And if you are blessed with talent, write it for the ages;
Remember that lasting change only comes in slow stages.

The Path to Peace on Earth

Why do we, as humans, fear that which we can't understand,

And attempt to explain all Sacred within the limitations of man?

As a mother, I am awed by what came to life within my being,

Outside of the area of what I was, then, capable of seeing.

I am saddened by human science's belief that we are in control;

It seems to diminish the cycle that makes each generation whole.

Humanity used to know that there was a natural cycle, from birth,

That continued to feed the universal Sacred cycles of our universe.

We now feel that, in allowing our earthly natures to progress,

We are somehow allowing our best of humanity to regress.

If we really believed in an Omnipotent Power of the Universe,

We'd believe that, at times, our earthly gains have to reverse.

This is not to say that previous humans have summarily failed;

It is simply that universal peace takes time, in order to prevail.

The glory of universal peace among people, and our harmony,

I will probably not be blessed enough, in my life, to see.

This does not preclude my responsibility to add my voice

In belief that peace among the nations of humanity is a choice. 

I live my life with an open mind, and an open heart and spirit,

Hoping where there is The Sacred Spirit's voice, we'll hear it.

Wherever I believe I hear instructions on the path to peace,

I commit to a process, that in my singing it out, I will increase.

I know that, in my mother's and father's faith, women don't speak;

I am weary that, in this way, only their voice of God, we seek.

Their path to peace continues to defer to their ancestral past;

I believe this was not meant to be Divine manifestation's last.

When will humankind have the faith in their own families to proceed;

Joining the path of all humanity, where peace on earth will succeed?

Peace, like in our own families, doesn't mean we all agree.
It means that we respect each others' core humanity.
We teach, by our own example, how we wish to be treated,
Allowing, within each community, their own justice to be meted.

Centuries of religious ritual can only be changed from within,
But the telling of our own stories is a place for others to begin.
I believe that this is the true purpose of the scriptures;
To give stories of how others grew from historical strictures.

The Sacred Spirit is in all humans; this we must project,
Especially toward the innocent children we're to protect.
Fear and jealousy are not parts of The Sacred Spirit;
If our lives say this loud enough, the universe will hear it.