Dearest Friends,
I dearly respect and support your social conscience. There are many great causes with brilliant minds shoving them forward. I find it extremely difficult to run from sandbox to sandbox trying to gather enough information to make an educated decision about who is correct and who is serving an agenda they eagerly forget to mention.
Is our home, world, universe at threat? Of course it is. Can we as members of the world society do anything to prevent the destruction we see on the horizon? Maybe but to do so we must sacrifice our personal beliefs and issues for the greater good. Will that happen? NO!
We all have things for which we would do anything. I will protect my mother, my family and my home. I will fight for every persons right to be who they want to be, do what they want to do and most of all say what they want to say. BUT will this make any difference in the grand scheme of things? Probably not unless I am willing to give up my freedoms, needs and desires to campaign for what I believe will make a difference.
My beloved friends, there is a paradox in every desire. We all know that most everyone agrees about most of today's issues. We want peace. We don't want anyone to die for economic reasons or political gain. I am not privileged at being smart enough to discern the truth in all the garbage that is being handed out. There are a couple of things that I am absolutely sure of. Saddam had an agenda. North Korea has there finger on button that could send us all back to the stone age. Bush isn't a very smart man. Do we know and can we control what these crazy people are going to do? No. We speculate, guess and pray someone gets their agenda straightened out and wakes up sane one of these days.
Do I do nothing you ask? Does nothing make me angry or emotional enough to act? I do something everyday ... I quietly tell and teach my friends and family and whomever else will listen, to be still and quiet each and every day. Look to yourself for happiness and then share that path those you love and care about. I could make myself crazy worrying about the nuclear issues and war and starving children and the list is endless. If you clean your own house, wipe out the hatred and fear, make yourself an open, loving, happy person then you set the stage to share that with others. I am NOT saying don't worry be happy, what I am saying is that many great things have been accomplished when human kind can see beyond the prejudice that lives in the blackest part of a persons heart. Just think about what motivates these huge gapping sores we live with in our world. Greed. Power. Fear. Prejudice. These are the plagues that we live with. These are the things that have made us what we are today. This is what one person can do. Remove the log from your own eye. Help your brothers and sisters to see more clearly. Not what you want them to see but what is truly there. Strip away the parts of your humanness that make you ugly and self-serving. Give of yourself freely without clouding who you are in a trendy issue or facade. Do not judge anyone .... ever because you just don't know. You don't have to be foolish trust everyone but you must give everyone exactly what you want for yourself; nothing more ... nothing less. There is only one thing more precious than the earth ... each and every single person carrying that piece of God they were sent to earth with.
Friends, we don't' have to agree on this. But I wanted you to know that I Love You dearly. I wanted to give you a piece of my heart. I will confess this is not what I always do but it is what I always strive to do and what I will keep sharing until the day I die.
Forever and Always
yours,
B
