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Again the conclusion to one of the worst weeks of carnage
I can remember, in my lifetime, a week full of terrorism,
racial hatred, political unrest, and just plain madness.
Quite frankly, our world unraveling.
So, I ask for guidance on how I, we, all of us, might
constructively respond to, approach, and hopefully,
eventually, circumvent this ongoing pattern of daily
disaster.
The response, listed below, titled Wrong Reflection
at first seems clearly escapist, but after some consideration,
I realize our current fixation with violence in all forms,
as well as the anger, hatred, and institutionalized meanness,
requires a radical reconceiving, at least on the spiritual level,
hopefully helping us to stop attracting and perpetuating
our own madness. It is time, I believe, for a new vision,
a more purified reflection: a world of sanity rather
than violent extremes – a world worthy of reflection.
WRONG REFLECTION
Look away, divert your focus, refuse to entertain
the tragic consequences of the wrong reflection,
the work of madness given form by frequent
rumination, refusing to speculate on the ways
and means for fixing what is broken, and instead,
reflect actively on what is desirable, positive,
worthy and valuable: stepping within this vision,
clarifying even the minutest detail, feel the refreshing
breeze of hope, compassion, and empathy returned;
letting it surround you, flush through you, breathe
it in until you are one with it; know this conscious
vision will slowly erase the despair when held
in unison with all those who choose harmony,
peace, and compassion – forthrightness; look away,
divert the focus each and every time it hurts your soul;
look away and within until this shared vision takes
tangible form; until kindness resurfaces one magical
moment at a time until, like a wave, a new presence
forms this existence, this life.
NOE BY G. 7.18.2016
WITH LOVE, G.