I will never quit!
Some days it is so difficult for me to share this blog in light of what is happening on our planet. There is so much polarization of ideas and values that create an atmosphere of us against them. And for me there will never be an us against them. We are one incredibly flawed, amazingly talented, human race. There is almost nothing we can’t do when we put our whole heart and soul into something. Problem is, so many broken hearts. We have broken each other’s hearts by our choices, that we have made out of fear. Our fears have divided us. We are often in so much pain that we lash out against others. Those in the deepest pain seem to make the most horrible violent choices. We keep trying to remedy the situation with laws and building armies, they both will never work. The only thing that will ever work is when we love each other enough that most of the broken hearts are healed.
And it probably can only work one on one. We get to forgive each other’s brokenhearted choices. We get to know that we are all the same. There is only one human race. It has developed over the centuries of shared living on this fragile spacecraft. And if we are ever going to come into a safe landing; we get to find out how to love, to get us all home.
Most of the people in our life, that we love, already know it. They may not know how much but they can feel it deep inside. The other people in our lives that don’t know we love them, get to find out! Let’s let everyone know how much we care. Perhaps if we do this more than we have done; the estranged folks might feel included. Then perhaps there will be less anger and more hugging. Then maybe tomorrow’s headlines might read: Today there was a group of people arrested for mass hugging in a public place!
I refuse to give in to the painful choices we have made as a society. I will continue to find ways to have others feel they are loved and cared for. Please join me! From my never quitting heart to yours, Thomas