REFLECTING ON THE POLITICAL DIVIDE
Today, America,
and perhaps even the whole world, seems deeply divided. You may feel prompted
to speak out against one side or the other; and that’s OK; but be careful! This
is a subtle trap. If you find yourself being caught up in the vitriol of the
division, if you are begining to hate those on the side opposing the side you think
is right, beware! You are falling into the trap. You are becoming blind to the
fact that we are all One. We all all children of the Most High. Our differences
are quite minor, unless magnified by hatred.
Be advised
that God is in control. If He were not, the cosmos would have devolved into utter
chaos eons ago, the planets of our solar system would have spun into the sun,
the sun would have exploded, and life as we know it would have ceased to
exist. But it hasn’t. This planet has continued
to spin nights and days for billions of years, and conscious beings have spun
their dreams of growth and positive development for hundreds of thousands of
years. Human beings have loved and hated one another as long as two or more
have formed a relationship, or a society. We live in an expanding bubble of positive growth, nurtured by Love
and Light, protected from physical chaos by the meaning and purpose of a Higher
Consciousness which opperates beyond our understanding as finite beings.
Whether you
want to call that Higher Conscious Reality God, or Nature, or the Conscious
Cosmos, makes no difference; It exists. If It did not, the laws of the physical
universe, which we have discovered, tell us that no stable universe could possibly
have developed from a vast explosion without the action of an organizer, and if
the chaos of the explosion was harnesed and molded into the extremely complex stable
reality of even the simplest life form found on this planet, then if that organizer
were to go away, the expanding chaos of the explosion would destroy any existing
stable structure in a nanosecond.
Once caught
up in the dichotomy of political division, we tend to think that this division
and animosity is the worst we’ve ever known. But that is not so. We have been
more divided in the not-so-distant past. In our Civil War, for example, neighbors
slaughtered neighbors, brothers even fought brothers. I am old enough to have
met, when I was very young, yet older people who fought in that horrible war. I
grew up playing on the earthen works of Fort Davidson in Pilot Knob, Missouri,
where hundred of Union and Confederate solders died. I have visited Manassas,
in Virginia, and shed tears for the lingering souls of young men who died there while
local farm families watched the war’s first battle from horse-drawn wagons at the edge of the field. And
many such divisions have split societies on this planet in the past. No, such
division is not unique. But let us pray that we have grown enough spiritually
to avoid bloodshed this time, and in the future.
The Creator
of this bubble of life in an otherwise chaotic universe is not dead, nor is He absent.
That organizing factor exists within each and every one of us. All
consciousness is part of and linked eternally with the Higher Consciousness of
the Cosmos. It is your job (no small task) to reconnect with that Cosmic
Consciousness in your heart of hearts, and then to work to awaken that
awareness in all hearts!
If the
world seems wrong to you, it is a sure sign that you need to change yourself. You
can only do so by making that reconnection with the Love and Light of the Higher Consciousness of
the Organizer in your heart.
ERC – 02/15/2020
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