Turning
“Whenever
you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the
messenger will be rejected.”
Mahatma
Gandhi
I lay in bed for an extra
hour this morning thinking about the world. There are so many
conflicting messages and none of us knows what is true. We are in a
hot mess, folks. I know we've been here before. This time is not in
any way unique—I've lived through enough wars now to know just how
futile they are. I keep thinking humanity is on the precipice of
“turning,” which in the Bible meant a complete change of
direction, a life-altering realization that utterly changes history's
trajectory and momentum. Perhaps we just don't move that fast.
Last week on Science
Friday an earth scientist compared the the time-line of Earth's
history to the months of a single year. Homo Sapiens showed up in the
last fifteen minutes of the the last hour on the final day of that
year, December 31st. And civilization as we know it only
began in the final five minutes. Everything we think of as human
history happened in the last twenty seconds. So, we haven't been
around for all that long, and we're still trying to figure out how to
do this without destroying each other. How do you think we're doing?
So far, our solution has
been to kill the messenger who tried to bring us the message—the
one about love being stronger than hate, about equality, and not
hierarchy, being the means to a peaceful end. Think Jesus, Gandhi,
Martin Luther King, Jr. But, here's the truth—I still believe we'll
learn it. Maybe not in my lifetime, but hopefully in the lifetime of
your children and grandchildren. I'm optimistic simply because we, as
a species, have to learn it or perish, and survival is important to
us.
I hope you'll give this
some thought today. It is we who will bring about a “turning.”
In the Spirit,
Jane
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