Once I can walk this Earth being of one mind and one spirit with all its inhabitants, I need not feel alienation or separation. From the Southeast Asian woman cooking on open fires the products dug from the forests' floor, to the hospitable sheikh who just had his servants prepare me the succulent lamb, to Ethel Barneby's kids who seem bent on having BBQ every nite. I am separated any time I put judgmental values on any other as undesirable! Can I see the difference between accepting, not participating, honoring the same? Can I peacefully say no to one and embrace the other always remaining in the center? Can I see darkness for its role and not be bent on having light at all times? When I am centered within, all is good within and without, flowing as the river does, not clinging to the banks of stuff(and ideologies) along the way.
I am really trying to keep my usual positive and hopeful attitude towards our humanity and mankind in general, but recent events have brought the old anger back in me which is really frustration and anxiety about Politicians and the money mongers of the world about which I can take no real action of any significance. I see hunger and destitude in the masses of this U.S. of A, the richest country on earth, I see the very weak and the elderly, the homeless and the hard working class suffer while the political will of some nuts is runnning amock! God help me to accept what I can change and that over which I have no control, and please God give me the wisdom to know the difference. It is nothing new, just different land, different time in the history of the ignorant man and the greed of the fools!
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