Agape
“Love
is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The
more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper
meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to
define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to
man.”
Aberjhani
(Journey Through the Power of the Rainbow)
I
have often wondered why we delineate history by wars fought. Why is
it that the brutal murder of war is the yardstick that measures our
progression as a species.
Why not record it by the milestones of restoration and relief of
human suffering, cures for polio and small pox, public works that
pulled us through the Great Depression, and the advancement of civil
rights to our minority populations. Why not put the era of affordable
housing for the poor on our historical record, and perhaps the
signing of the declaration of human rights for all people, or
considerations of access for our elderly and disabled. The invention
of vaccines and medicines for almost every human ailment has happened
in my lifetime alone. How about defining a decade or two by that
incredible feat.
Somehow,
as a people we have valued our warriors more than our healers, our
killing machines more than those that diagnose and cure. We have
looked up to our Generals more that our teachers, and heralded those
who promise us victory on the battlefield more than those who seek to
mediate peace. We have let our passion for superiority and dominance
excuse us from the oppression and exclusion it necessitates.
It's
time for agape—it's time for love to predominate. “This world's
anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.”
(Aberjhani—Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love)
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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