Gun sales are at an all time high and if you think fear does not play a role in that, then you may want to take a second look. People are so afraid of other people, they feel that guns are the only way they feel safe. They are afraid. Fear is running their lives. You can deny it all you want, but if you take a moment to look at it, you'll see it. I'm not saying anything about guns, other than fear drives guns. Why else would the gun sales skyrocket?
To see someone that was dressed in Arab clothing and become suspicious of the person and report them is beyond comprehension in my mind. We fear what we do not know. We fear these people because we're taught to fear them every day. Through the media and especially the politicians, we know nothing else than the fear we should feel at the utterance of their name or image we see.
We are so afraid of one thing or another. I remember living in a small town and I was meeting a friend of mine at a youth baseball practice session in the local ballpark. I was sitting on the bleachers minding my own business and the parents demanded to know who I was and why I was there. It was not for information purposes, but because they didn't know who I was. They were afraid. Yet, the same people would be fine worshiping alongside a child molester in their church.
Associate with our own kind...
When we put up walls and fences and only associate with our own kind, we're not helping to make the world a better place. When we fear everyone around us that doesn't act like us or think like us, we are not making the world a better place. When we fear everything but what we believe and we listen to the news pundits and politicians as if they speak our truth, we are not helping to make the world a better place.
When we degrade others and put our beliefs and religions as the forefront of all knowledge and truth, we are degrading all of humanity. We are making each one of us out to be less than we are because we cannot see others with a pure essence or someone just like us.
When all others are wrong....
When we proclaim we have the right way and all others are wrong, it is then that fear is guiding our heart. There is no love in that statement. When we do this, we automatically assemble all those that are teetering on the brink of collapse to heed our call to hate one another. Through that hatred, we see mass shootings such as Orlando and others.
We cannot proclaim to be better than those we despise if we do the same things that we hold up as being horrible. We cannot proclaim to be better if we return hate with hate, all the time acting as if we have love in our hearts. We are all guilty to some degree and many of us are guilty to a much greater degree.
We no longer respect and talk with one another as neighbors. We no longer see others in the eyes of love because fear is running our world. We engage in rhetoric that adds to the problem, but solves nothing. We engage in rhetoric that brings us in unison with the masses, but does nothing to help make the world better. We engage in beliefs that pit one person against another, rather than opening our arms and showing love to one another.
Fear is so alive...
It is time we begin to face up with how much fear is running our world. Fear is so alive and this world is running scared. Yes, I know there are dangers. I have seen this happen too close to me, but we cannot do the same thing that is being done to us, because if we do, we will only lose the most precious part of our existence.
We are all one. We were all created as humans traveling on this planet through the journey of life. We can either choose to continue and keep our heads buried in the sand, or we can rise above and learn to love, not hate. We can be more than we are, if we want to, but we must stop letting the rhetoric of the day be our source of strength and sustenance to our soul.
The ego keeps score. The ego dictates how great it is and how right it is. The ego shows you how wrong everyone is and how much they should be silenced. The ego has nothing to do with love. It has nothing to do with love in our heart.
It is up to each one of us, what we do and how we impact the world. Each one of us can continue on the same path we are, or we can make a difference. It isn't the other people who we need to worry about in life. It is what is in our heart that will make the difference. For when our hearts unite as one, hate will have no home. Ignorance will not be fed. Rhetoric of the day will sound like a noisy cymbal out of tune.
It is up to each one of us, what we choose to do with our day. We will either become part of the solution or we will continue to add to the hate that is alive through the fear that is running our world.
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