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Getting lost in your fears and emotions does not solve any problem or situation coming into your awareness. A stable mind allows you to see the story coming toward and maybe with spending some time inhaling the story as if it were your breath.
The happenings of these modern times, the crimes, the politics, the sexual and racial injustices and the state of fear which exist within our nation could make a person contemplate the reason for existing in these days. There seems to be a living state of insanity. My definition, which has been passed on to me, states ‘insanity is doing the same behavior and expecting different results.’
As a black, gay father in America, I could hold resentments and have hourly pity parties. My first response to that is the question of ‘how will this serve me and what type of solution will come about with my behavior’?
I cannot affect social change if I am a reactionary, angry, name calling, finger pointing person. But I can speak to the value of my story and my placement within the society, the value of my purpose and gifting.
As a sacred artist of social change, I am a man who operates in solution and gratitude for the opportunity to address the issues in a plan which will produce a positive manifestation. I am aware of the issues and I am willing to have a positive conversation addressing the issues. I intend to maintain a compassionate ear and an open mind. I do my homework on the issues in order to understand the positive and the negative aspects of the issues that are challenging me.
I am willing to be transparent about my concerns and I am willing to listen to other concepts of solutions of my concerns.
I am willing to look at the personal and the universal of each and every human story and how it applies to the overall universal human story.
I am willing to list my personal concerns in a constructive and organized manner and willing to discuss them in that same manner.
I am willing to change the behavior that does not serve me or disempowers the people around me.
I am willing to be patience in the process of developing change and I will trust the process while being constructive and consistent in my thinking and actions.
As an artist of change and a facilitator of social evolution, I recognize the importance of using my abilities and intelligence as agents of change. If I want my voice to be heard, I must respect the voices of all others speaking their individual truths. By listening, it does not mean I am in agreement with the person I am listening to. It just means I am willing to be available for a real conversation of the heart, soul and spirit. It means I am willing to commune with another human being in an intimate act of being present.
It means I am willing to be present to support the life force and the future of this planet and the universe. I want to invest in the future of our evolution as a human race. I am willing to be human as I unite with other humans to create more understanding between each and every one of us. If any of us are enslaved, then we are all enslaved. We are the mirrors of the world we are.
I am willing to use the alchemy of change to move into the proactive state of transformation. I am willing to surrender to the process of transformation. Because in the state of transformation I am in the state of becoming the change I wish to see in the world. Change is the portal that allows the alchemy of transformation to become the state of being the active agent of a maintenance that ensures the continuation of our social circle of change. I am willing to make love with the lights on, be aware of waves of change.
The circle of change is spiral and on-going and it has been occurring for thousands of years. It has been evolving since we were in caves writing on the walls to programming our lives on the internet and on our personal phones.. We have come from crawling to walking and now it is time to run home to use the knowledge and technical skills to be the balance of being ancient and modern, at the same time.
It is time to complete the circle and stay safely inside the center where we become a sane people. The charity of change is an individual act that becomes a societal response to the call of transformation. We are the facilitators of our societal transformation as we stay in a unity of purpose, living a mindful, compassionate reality. It is time to be the hands and feet of our society to walk and wash the mistakes that are really lessons we are experiencing. We are not being punished. We are being pushed to action. It is time to respond in the affirmative.
I am in a state of becoming my own, individual expression of transformation because I have developed rituals of living that support the process of our ongoing human evolution. We will achieve the needed transformation of our modern world by being progressive in our thinking and our actions of being. We are the transformation we need to be, one step at a time, one breath of faith at a time. We must trust the process, the becoming of being a sane society.