The meaning behind my profile picture - thoughts for today

My profile picture represents something important to me: connectedness. We are connected to those around us and we have a responsibility to one another to honor those connections. When we affirm each other, we strengthen community. It doesn’t matter if we are different. Our differences can enrich us if we let them. What tears us apart is when we allow differences to feed division. Hatred. That gets us nowhere.

On this day I wish to express support for those around me. It doesn’t matter to me what you look like, or where you come from, or what language you speak, or what you think of God or the universe, or how you think of yourself, or who you love and how. What matters to me is that you are a human being with a good heart.

If you are struggling, reach out your hands to the people next to you. We need each other. Affirm them as they affirm you. Send your acceptance and respect to them, and to the next people down the line, and the next, and the next, etc. For those who feel like they are isolated, look around. There are many outstretched hands waiting for you.

Take them.

- Sophia