We Vote today - a choice we will have to make - we vote each time there is a decision in our lives, our choices reflect our values and our morals.
Our vote typically aligns with our energy.
The candidate and their vision of the future - matches our own.
I am not certain any political ad or speech will sway us one way or the other.
Who we are - is how we vote.
We vote for what feels familiar or probably what is the popular vote among our family and friends.
We don't typically want to stand out and be different.
Trying to sway someone to vote differently - is to try and change their inner code - which seems almost unshakable. However, if your own life has been upended, your inner sense of the world will change and you will renegotiate your values and morals.
And with new morals and values, your vote will change.
While voting on the president is a big deal, all of our decisions are big deals. Each choice we make or don't make, will affect our individual relationships - with ourselves and those around us.
What we stand for or sit down with- matters.
The accumulation of our votes leans forward thinking or standing still or trying to move backwards. The universe though I believe is forward evolution - albeit slow at times.
And it seems that some are okay taking away rights and others are not.
If you are born and raised in a community that has limited your rights, it feels right.
Some have been limited their whole lives - living in a body that they didn't have the right over.
Hear that.
They do not own their own body.
I know this - I lived for 46 years with a body that wasn't mine.
I wasn't able to do with it - as I wanted; but what the church felt was right or wrong.
I was nowhere to be found.
I understand when so many women step into the voting booth - how they will not be free.
Perhaps because I know the difference - I have a choice. Others do not.
I didn't even know know - that I was not free. I only knew how to be a good person within the church and follow the rules. I didn't look deeply at the rules or what they meant or how I felt or what their impact had on me - let alone how these rules excluded others.
It was just a sin to have total freedom with my body.
One of the bigger choices that is being voted on is women's rights.
And it is complicated.
Not a simple or easy conclusion.
But, oddly it would be IF it was about the Man.
Being a country of freedoms - some are limited by their religious rules. It will be foreign to vote for freedom of self.
At the end of the day - when the votes are tallied, we will have a better understanding on how the majority feel and whose rights are being supported.
Will humanity continue to grow and expand and become more aware and balanced or will we spiral backwards to limitations.
While voting for the president is a big decisions, there are many real decisions in our own lives that matter in how we add to the wellness of humanity.
We vote according to our limits - not the broad space of potentials.
How we respond to the election when it is all said and done and how we live with the candidate that is not our choice - will also be a choice.
Our challenge in life is to live and be the best you can be within the systems that govern our country and community. The best way to govern is to lead with freedom.
In a perfect world, there would be peace on earth.
