What Are You Celebrating?

It's your weekly check-in from Pretty! How's everybody doing out there? We are hangin' out,  hangin' in and hangin' on around here! As part of our coping with the general chaos, treats were purchased from the ice cream truck just yesterday...

As part of my personal coping, I'm having a Summer Fling (yarn available on pre-order now!) with a Springline Tee in Destination Yarn, and it's coming right along...

I'm also spending time checking out what my friends are up to on social media, so I hope you're all posting your good times! 

Are you climbing trees with your Pop Pop?

Knitting on your patio with friends? 

As I peruse social media, I'm sad to see that there is so little regard for kindness, especially online. For example, I saw this pic posted in a couple places, and I was a little dismayed to discover how sad it made me. Well, the photo didn't make me sad, but some of the hate-filled comments below it certainly did (and I will not repost any of that)...

While I have some issues with the organization that created this collection of images and words, I've always loved a rainbow, and rainbows generally signify positive things to people all along the spectrum...but lately, I've seen the rainbow spurning hate.

Let me be clear: By blogging this pic, I am neither declaring full agreement with all of the words added by gotquestions.org, nor hate for any individual or group. Regardless of your personal stance on God, religion, relationships or reality, rainbows can signify something beautiful. At the very least, a rainbow is a thing of beauty to witness, marvel at and celebrate!

Despite our differences, any rainbow can signify beauty, sacred promises, new beginnings and unconditional love. Can we all agree on that? I hope so! 

Personally, I believe that the rainbow is a reminder of the promise made to Noah, by God...a promise that God will never destroy all of His creation through a similar flood in the future. This is a promise of God's love for all of creation, without exception. He even loves mosquitos! So, if God can love all of creation, and if I profess to love God, then the least I can possibly do is to practice kindness. 

I can be kind in my words (written, spoken and implied), even when I disagree. I can be kind in my actions, and I can be kind in my thoughts. Am I gonna mess up sometimes? I will, but that won't stop me from trying. I'll keep trying, and I hope you will, too.

Hey! I think I see a rainbow! Yay!

I love all the things (and people) on my fridge!

Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health!