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This year in honor of Pride month, I propose a radical change. We have all been taught that we need to “come out” about who we are. That we need to announce our sexuality to our family as if they are the authority over whether we are acceptable or worthy.

But in the the deepest truth, NO ONE on this Earth has the authority over whether we are acceptable or worthy. This whole acceptance thing is just a fear tactic created by society and religion to control us and to put us in a box to make us feel inferior. And it’s designed this way so that those on the “opposite” side of the fence can continue thinking they are more holy in some way.

NO ONE is more unholy than the one casting the stone of judgment upon another. For it is our birth right to love.

Have you ever noticed that no one can take love away from you? No matter how many times they try to beat it out of you, it’s still there? Because love lives inside of you beyond anything attainable.

So my radical proposition is to end this idea of “coming out”. Instead, when you meet that person that lights up your heart, that sees you as the beautiful being that only God could have created, you decide to introduce that person to the other people in your life not as a coming out of your sexuality, but as a sharing of the love you have for the person that has reminded you of the love in your heart.

That love that has always existed, before anyone told you who you are supposed to be.

With Pride,
Matthew

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:33 and feeling free:

Many of you that I have seen this year know that it’s been a really tough one for me. It rained, it poured, it tsunamied, it kamikazied lol.

But as I turn 33 today, I’m starting to feel this shift happen again that has been flowing as an undercurrent through the muck of the last few months. A sort of “from the mud rises the lotus” kind of moment. Somewhere along the way in my journey I decided that I was going to do everything that I could to control the things around me that would make me feel safe. It showed up in everything I did from trying to pick out the “perfect” vegetables, to trying to control a conversation to get a certain outcome, to suppressing the “bad” emotions.

This year life really broke me in the most humbling of ways, but also, in the most loving of ways. It showed me it’s ok to not be ok, it grounded me to see that I cannot control life or those around me, but only my own actions, and most importantly that when I was going through one of the most impactful few months of my life and trying desperately to change things that were out of my control, that sitting with it all without pushing it away allowed me to start moving through it. That allowing things to exist as they are, even when they are really really difficult, is exactly what I need to allow the growth to transpire. It’s been a journey. Every day is a journey and now I can see that every single moment is a journey. It’s full of a lot of ups and a lot of downs, ebbs and flows, highs and lows, but there is a ground within me that holds it all. That depth within me can survive anything, can hold all of the difficult waves of the ocean, because it too is the ocean.

And in the moment of the recognition of the ground of being within me that holds it all, I am free.

33 today and feeling free.

With deep appreciation,
Matthew