My thoughts are typically stretched enough and don’t require additional assistance. This one line supplied enough amusement in itself to garner my attention.
It is good to hear that @lynncoyle1 keeps in touch with you and visa-versa. I have been wondering how her and Brian have been doing as I have kept them in my prayers.
As I'm writing this reply I clicked on her link and see she has just recently posted, will get back to her update following this reply. What a wonderful soul she is.
All too many people beat around the bush all too often and are afraid to say what they really think, or are afraid that they may offend someone in so doing. Talking out of both sides of one's mouth is so irritating that I literally avoid conversation with people. Hidden agendas are present with almost every spoken word.
It is always refreshing to hear someone say what they think, whether I agree with them or not.
Now, to the countless ways humans revere the almighty, and the masquerade of costumes that come along with each charade being innumerable, I for one feel that what ever floats your boat is fine with me.
A lot of it I don't get and never will, but the one thing that I do believe should be at the very core of everyone's convictions is respect for life.
No one person is better than the next, they may be better off but not superior.
Submissive to the degree that one needs to hide their mouth while eating in public is over the top.
When you take a look at the way people behave, and under the guise of religion, none of it really makes any sense. Each sect thinks that their way is the way that the guy/girl/who really knows, perched above us all, wants them to display their reverence.

Live and let live, respect and be respected, have faith and be faithful, and one day we may come to see what it is that we all have been at odds with since the dawn of mankind.