Saturday, July 4, 2015

It's Time for Love

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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