Building a Strong Foundation of Truth

Rock Solid

COVID 19. Civil unrest. Chaos. Confusion. What are your challenges and how are you coping? Did you ever wish for someone to hold you close and keep you safe? Yet perhaps you feel as alone as I did when I was a young single mom.

My dad was missing in action during the Vietnam war. If he was alive, he was being tortured. As a teen and young adult, I watched repeated replays of our president, John F. Kennedy, being shot. Then his brother, Bobby, and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. The Watts riots took place in Los Angeles about 30 miles from my home. Students were shot at Kent State. America was in turmoil, and so was my personal life.

Then, in 1975, I discovered this Lladro figurine in an exclusive shop in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A mystery about her gave us a celestial connection. But, I wasn’t sure why. I only knew her price tag was way beyond my reach. However, a few years later, I received her as a gift, and she became my most prized possession. 

Turbulent times exposed the significance of her imagery. Despite life’s upheaval, she exudes peace, serenity, dignity, and hope. This blog will show how to embrace all that and more. She stands on a rock-solid foundation. That rock is Truth. It’s not relative; it’s real. And, living in the reality of truth about self, sexuality, and social issues is more stabilizing and thrilling than you can imagine. Still, this blog isn’t looking to give you pat answers. Its function is to encourage you to build your life on a foundation of universal truths that we can’t escape no matter how hard we try. Truths such as one day we all die. But in the meantime, we can live beyond ourselves and find peace, love, unity, and respect. In the midst of turmoil, that is greater than  . . . anything. Even death.