February 4, 2018 - Speak Truth to Hooey
Channel: Unity of Walnut Creek
Date: 01/04/2018

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Being right vs. being happy. Children work it out b/c invested in playing together and having fun. First step is always intention. Sometimes lose our way, but we can always return to this childhood base. I’d rather be happy. I’d rather have a playmate. I’d rather have fun, then debate about who’s right.

“…out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks” – Matt 12:34

HOOEY
Title in 3rd week of Series based BB bk Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone. This week: Speak Truth to Hooey. 

Who is Hooey? Sounds like Donald Duck’s nephews. Hooey is equally pretend and makes truth hard to trace. It’s as confusing Hewey, Dewey and Louie’s story. DD’s nephews become his children? How did they get in his care? I traced DD family tree b/c this is what we do when we are knee-deep in Hooey, a euphemism for BS, and we want to climb out – we try to get to facts. It turns out Dumbella aka Della is sometimes Donald’s cou and sometimes his sis. She sent his 3 nephews – H, D, L – to live w/ him while boys fa was in hospital after a firecracker was set off under his seat. (likely by these 3 angelic boys). Making sense of family backstory gets messy – and it’s a cartoon! Like DD’s rambunctious nephews with an unexplained past – it’s hard to track facts when we’re immersed in Hooey aka BS

Truth, Lies and Hooey
Worldly truth can be traced to facts. Lies intentionally oppose facts. And then there’s Hooey – created intentionally or innocently, either way confusion and mayhem can ensue. Increasing Hooey in our culture, being passed on as truth. Dangerous b/c then our decisions become based on emotional reactivity and uninformed opinions – creating a bigger divide between us and making it harder to find line of human dignity, much less Divinity, discussed last wk. 

Let’s get into Hooey, so we can wade our way thru to Truth that “sets us free.”

Seeing through Hooey – helps us to testify to Truth.

 See Thru You’re either with us or against us. For gun ownership or agst it, for immigrant citizenship or against it, towing co. line or not a team player. 

Argument is set up to silence dissent and draw lines that squelch debate, discussion or even Q’s. Pay attn. to these dichotomies. Don’t let them slide. There’s always another option w/ Spirit’s wisdom.

We pay a high price w/ silence. Individually w/our integrity and collectively we suffer divisiveness and bypass effective, even miraculous solutions.

We have to get past freezing up and being afraid to break silence when it needs to be broken for our individual and collective well-being.

Silence Breakers – Time Person of the Year – birth #MeToo Campaign
Courage to break silence in just a few of places sexual harassment was rampid– Hollywood, corporations, government and strawberry fields. 

Ten days after Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a serial predator, Alyssa Milano, borrowing from activist Tarana Burke’s 2006 grassroots movement, sent a tweet before she went to bed: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” By the time she woke, more than 50,000 people had responded with #MeToo tweets. A massive movement was born.

HOW TO
Show up, Speak up – We will make mistakes if we brave “testifying to the truth” and we will gain greater engagement and richer outcomes. And who doesn’t want that for our selves, our lives, our relationships and our world?

Be Compassionate, Courageous and Curious.

Align with Spirit – Trust what comes. What was Jesus doing when he wrote in sand? I think he was praying, dropping into his heart, seeking guidance. This is where Absolute Truth is found – straight from Spirit to your lips and out into world.

CONCLUSION
Scariest thing isn’t going into wilderness. It’s finding ourselves at end of our lives saying what if I would have shown up fully? What if I would have:
spoken my truth completely? 
tapped my Source and spoken from that deep knowing wisdom within me? 

How many lives could have been touched in a profound way including my own? 
Let’s not allow ourselves to go to what if’s at end of our lives. 

Let’s find courage to speak truth to Hooey, so Hooey can stop setting firecrackers under chairs, and instead Spiritual Truth can set a fire in our individual hearts and a wildfire of Spiritual Truth in our world – that will strip away Hooey and leave Spirit standing tall, strong and visible to all. 

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. – Matt 12:34

AFFIRMATION
I speak the truth with spiritual authority and kindness.