Believing in a Better World
Musing, October 2010
Believing In a Better World
As we enter a new season, my happiness is overlaid with a melancholy brought on by so many problems in the human family. Young men committing suicide after being bullied; politicians throwing mud on each other until we can’t see who they are; people suffering from jobs lost, homes foreclosed; and, of course, the usual judgments about religion, sexual orientation and choice. How, in the midst of all of this, do we keep our focus on the positive? Also in my personal family, there have been deaths, illness, and challenges.
As I accepted these feelings of sadness being inevitable and also meaningful, I had the opportunity to study with some amazing women, bringing the sense of the feminine—the wholeness of all experience—into my days. This was followed by a weekend with my daughter in Charleston, where we were privileged to work with the incredible ageless Jean Houston (who is in her mid-seventies) and the energetic prescient ageless Barbara Marx Hubbard, who is now eighty. Being in their presence as they talked about the next evolution of our planet and our place in it was a gift beyond price. The wisdom and generosity of both women and the other presenters, and the group of women attending, put me back in my right place—my heart.
We are created in the image of the Divine, and as Jean says, “God is creating co-creators.” We are given the opportunity to co-create, with our creator, the way we want the world to be. Rather than finding the differences, we set an intention to find our similarities. They talked about Maslow’s belief that your vocation is self-actualizing, as in “your vocation is what wants to grow in you, not what’s wrong with you.” Depression—or sadness—is something revealing itself that wants to be expressed. What wants to be expressed in me is my belief that we must step back from accusing, bullying, ridiculing, attacking and believing we are better than others to the place of the heart, which is love. Seeing others as an opponent or less-then ourselves is outside of love. Only inclusion and empathy brings us inside love. As we approach the seasons of Thanksgiving and family, may we be aware of those who are outside of the circle of blessing and draw them in—with love.
Believing In a Better World
As we enter a new season, my happiness is overlaid with a melancholy brought on by so many problems in the human family. Young men committing suicide after being bullied; politicians throwing mud on each other until we can’t see who they are; people suffering from jobs lost, homes foreclosed; and, of course, the usual judgments about religion, sexual orientation and choice. How, in the midst of all of this, do we keep our focus on the positive? Also in my personal family, there have been deaths, illness, and challenges.
As I accepted these feelings of sadness being inevitable and also meaningful, I had the opportunity to study with some amazing women, bringing the sense of the feminine—the wholeness of all experience—into my days. This was followed by a weekend with my daughter in Charleston, where we were privileged to work with the incredible ageless Jean Houston (who is in her mid-seventies) and the energetic prescient ageless Barbara Marx Hubbard, who is now eighty. Being in their presence as they talked about the next evolution of our planet and our place in it was a gift beyond price. The wisdom and generosity of both women and the other presenters, and the group of women attending, put me back in my right place—my heart.
We are created in the image of the Divine, and as Jean says, “God is creating co-creators.” We are given the opportunity to co-create, with our creator, the way we want the world to be. Rather than finding the differences, we set an intention to find our similarities. They talked about Maslow’s belief that your vocation is self-actualizing, as in “your vocation is what wants to grow in you, not what’s wrong with you.” Depression—or sadness—is something revealing itself that wants to be expressed. What wants to be expressed in me is my belief that we must step back from accusing, bullying, ridiculing, attacking and believing we are better than others to the place of the heart, which is love. Seeing others as an opponent or less-then ourselves is outside of love. Only inclusion and empathy brings us inside love. As we approach the seasons of Thanksgiving and family, may we be aware of those who are outside of the circle of blessing and draw them in—with love.
Labels: bullying, gratitude, spirituality
posted by Therese | 11:23 AM
1 Comments:
Well said. Considering we are all here on our own journey for soul growth. Would it not be better to respect and have empathy for someone who has chosen a more difficult path, than to judge them to be less? After all we have all been there. Right?
Km
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