The Risks of Being a Happy Family
May 17, 2025
Would you risk meeting with Rev. Skatie Justice in order to shorten the path to your family’s happiness?
This is not the minister you expected but I am a minister who can help.
It is my number one intention for love, in words, thoughts and actions, to be my primary motivation at all times for all things.
We must all work together to protect everyone’s human rights, across religious, political, national or other differences.
You be you. I will attempt to be me. Are you free to safely be you? Me to be me? Are we free to learn and grow into our newest authentic self?
Equality is not enough for all humans to live a full life, to be themselves, to know freedom and love. Equity is required and attainable.
None of us are guaranteed tomorrow. So how should you live today? Who will you be? What will your relationships look like? What will your impact be? How will you feel when your head hits your pillow again? How will you be remembered?
Some lessons from the pandemic:
1. our world can change in an instant,
2. our health or loved one’s can crumble,
3. emotional well-being is a real, important thing,
4. and we’re ALL interconnected.
Apart from changes to how some of us work, very few people seem to have changed significantly because of the pandemic.
Alas, we are all carrying trauma, anxiety, fear, anger and more from the pandemic and life on either side of it. There are opportunities to be better people, to be better business people, better family members, better neighbors, better community members.
I know you can feel how “off” things are. Unless you were protected and made financial gains in the pandemic, you have radar for the fear and insecurity inside you and around you.
I’m a listener, chaplain, pastor, commentator, coach, mediator, negotiator, leader, follower, host, speaker, preacher, counselor and more.
I’m a U.S. citizen with all the freedoms, in theory, one is suppose to have. I want you and your folks to experience their fullest freedom, joy and love for as long as they live. It will take all of us pulling in the same direction and I’d like to be able to help.
Religious leaders and institutions are usually the last to change. Rev. Justice has been perpetually on the fringes because of her open-mindedness and creativity.
Before being reverend anyone, Skatie was questioning pastors, professors, scripture and God as a college freshman. Integrity and courage have marked that journey since the early 1990’s.
More than a list of credentials and accomplishments, like most humans, life has not been smooth or easy for Rev. Justice. Realistic practicality informs all of her work.
Beyond seminary and ordination, chaplaincy training teaches deep listening, empathy and self-knowledge. Rev. Justice has completed four immersive experiential units of chaplaincy over 18 months, including a 1-year chaplain residency at a trauma-1 state university medical center.
Would you risk meeting with Rev. Skatie Justice in order to shorten the path to your family’s happiness?
Do you have big feelings about your LGBTQIA+ kid? What would you do in order to have a healthy, positive, happy relationship with your gay, lesbian, bisexual, non-monogamist, intersex, asexual, nonbinary, transgender or otherwise queer child or loved one?
Have you ever blown up at your queer kid because you can’t figure out why they are being like this? It doesn’t have to take 20 years for you to stop punishing everyone, yourself included. I’m here to help.
Reach out before you lose another ‘today.’