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I am a Man of Love and I believe it is our goal to find the answers to the problems of our human world. The solutions to the problems, I believe, is found in the conscious practice of compassionate and mindful living. We are living in a world of reactionary people, being in our world, sometimes ruling our world through government and media.
I would like to think, we the people are the trusted ones in control. Anger, distrust, emotional manipulation, religious manipulation, monetary manipulation, sexual repression, greed, the worlds of cultural repression using racism, sexism, and the other -isms are the ingredients mixed into the gumbo of our modern world. What bothers me the most is the increase of violence stemming from anger and ego, unresolved development of human expression, all existing in spades, in our modern human race.
Anger, ego, and retaliation is the working language or expressive form of communication being used by too many people in positions of power or people attempting to reach for more expansive power. There is a growing intolerance for any misuse of power or its imbalance, on the personal, social, and political level. There is a call for making more decisions out of love, not out of the emotion of loss, lack, and fear. Equality for all human beings as a goal is the food for the journey of mapping a pathway of solution and evolution of the modern society.
We are in a dialogue of redefining gender, spirituality, culture, planetary development and support and how we maintain intimacy in our relationships.
We are producing a generation of children who have heightened access to a world of high entitlement and modern privilege.
These reasons will foster a need for change in our society which has become somewhat complacent in our ways of enacting our daily modern comfort. Immediate gratification is ruining our human journey. We have made it a habit to avoid discomfort which is inherent in the journey of unfolding life.
I believe we would want our children to have a joy for life, find value in the fabric of their lives, find memories like breaths of life that allow them to release fear. We would hope they would find the fight for achieving the grace of love and a purpose for life.
Growing pains are a given and an important aspect of our growth as individuals and a people. We can find the depths of truth in the midst of blood, sweat and tears. We have lost our traditions of honoring life as an evolution of human thought and growth. We have forgotten to protect the spirit of life, the importance and value of life unfolding.
We are being called to speak the story of an evolving life with all its pain and grief and transform it into a perspective that allows you to speak in love. We must not lose faith in our communities and our country. We are experiencing pain and loss. We must protect the hole of loss, grief and cover it with love to create a garden of abundance, growth that transform and transcends to make our hearts bigger than the gaping hole we have started with.
Life has worth and it is time to find faith in our human values, find reasons to live beyond money, property and prestige and answer the question of what life expects from you. Our hearts may be broken, but our spirits are not. Our salvation is found in the steps of compassion and resolution, a reunion of being present for each other as a people and a nation. There is enough in existence for all living creatures in this world. There is no need to believe in scarcity, but a time to believe in trusting the abundance of life, in the possiblities of life. It is time to release the power of fear.
It is time to be creative in our thoughts and language, our acts of kindness, compassion and constructive resolution. We have a purpose to heal the fear and anger, soothe the want to be the only one being heard and understood. We must remember we are the United States of America. We are One, as a people and a nation, we have just forgotten.
What comes to mind is the Quaker sensibility to “roll up your sleeves, pray, and then get busy.” Being loving is being more than an emotion. It is an active verb. The time is now, in the present time to achieve the American Dream.
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