I don't know what happened or why. I don't know what this mother was thinking. But I can guess.
We are isolated, alone, with no support, no friends or family, no protection. Our government is a predator leeching from our lives and our friends are just names on a glowing page whom we never see. In that life, how can we be anything but alone.
And alone, the world is a enormous and terrible thing to bear.
Humans are social creatures by nature. We need contact, comfort. We are also tactile creatures. We need to be groomed and cherished and loved. And, when we do wrong, we need to be punished and scorned. We need to help one another. We need to be taught and to teach. We need to be accepted and included.
There have been many terrible things that have lead us astray.
Possession has been one.
In that age old message which may not have been spoken in words but echoed in the thousands of spirits of that time "We cannot own the earth"
We are a part of it. If anything, it owns us, for that is a much more true dynamic. And we must respect that and our responsibility to it.
Another has been denial of our most base and natural of things.
Like sex. And nudity.
Our bodies are lovely and natural, in denying them, how can we not deny and be ashamed of ourselves. Who else sees it most base and wrong that Adam and Eve were ashamed of their nakedness?
Why should they have been?
Why is it more accepted to see violence than nudity?
Which would you prefer your children to be exposed to?
Love?
Or violence?
We learn by observation. We always have. Never deny the power of exposure to media. It doesn't matter if it's not real. It is real. Someone created it and we are allowing it to be the major teachers of our children.
Last is the concept of God.
Not the creator or that power that moves through all of us. But the concept of something else controlling and taking care of our lives.
Jesus did not die for our sins. He died because of our sins. Because we did not hear the true message.
Walk together in love.
Jesus died because we killed him.
Doesn't that condemn us to sin and not heaven?
In truth there is no way to cast out from us that which we have created. If we do wrong, it is our doing and ours to undo. The responsibility for all things lies solely upon us, not some Almighty who will step in and save us at the last moment. No. Responsibility is ours. We must use it.
I know we feel powerless. But we got ourselves into this mess, we better get ourselves out.
Feel alone? You are. But that's only because you have made it that way. I suggest a way out. I suggest we make a way out. Today. Right now.
I don't know who reads this. I know I don't even really keep up with it. But if there's anyone out there help me try.
This is what I suggest.
Meet your neighbors.
It's not much but it's a start.
Personally I live with ten houses around me and I don't know the name of a single one of my neighbors.
So take a walk. Bring some cookies. Invite them over for tea. Anything. Say hello, ask if they're ok. If they need anything. If you can help.
Write a letter, reconnect with friends. Near or far, people are probably as lonely as you. Please, just say hello.
Then at home. Stop throwing things away.
I know it's hard, but look for the ways and means to recycle, to reuse, to recreate. Compost. Anything.
Connect. Teach. Learn.
If someone offers you advice, don't take offense. Listen. They've taken the time to speak and offer a different perspective into your reality. You can have the respect to hear what they have to say. It took courage to say, take the courage to listen.
Say hello.
Smile to those around you.
Compliment everyone.
Make someone's day.
Connect, so we can create change.
Please, start today.
