TO ALL HUNTERS …

Please know this: We are not meant to hunt a beating heart … We are not meant to kill — period … Indeed, the very furthest place away from our Souls is the place we go when we choose to “hunt” to kill.

My hunter Friends, what you are looking for in the night — in the still forest or the quiet bush; by moonlight or the first light of dawn — is not an animal for trophy, or for food, or for conservation’s sake … No, my Friends … It is your own lost sense of Peace; it is a respite from your own internal struggles for which you search and seek.

Well, one thing at least seems patently clear — you will most certainly never find real Peace on the tip of a bloody blade, and you will most certainly never find it by inserting a bullet from your weapon into the fresh flesh of a voiceless victim. And I promise you as well that your deepest and most profound Solace will never be found from gazing upon the Light of Life as it slowly seeps from a “fresh kill” and fades into the surrounding skies.

No, my Friends … Peace is found gently … Peace is found with gentle eyes and a gentle touch … Peace is something that is given and never taken.

So PLEASE … put down your weapons, hunters. The blade you point into the innocent and the rifle you aim at the vulnerable would both serve the Earth far better if they found their way to your own body instead … AND also please know that you don’t deserve such suffering either. Like your unknowing prey, you too are fine and good and caring at heart, and as such you too do not deserve the pain you would inflict upon those other creatures fine & noble.

Indeed, you have already known their pain — and you have already experienced their terror. For you too were hunted in your youth. You were “hunted” by cold or absent parents — you were “hunted” by unjust laws or arrogant bosses — you were “hunted” by unfaithful lovers or fickle friends. And even though what you lost in those forays was not your life, your Soul was indeed gravely wounded; allowing your ego to rise to the fore … an ego that told you that might makes right — an ego that told you that power was in the taking — an ego that told you that killing was “normal” if not “brave” — an ego that told you to “be a man” and hunt, just like you had been hunted.

And yet taking a life that isn’t yours will never resuscitate your damaged Spirit, nor can it return your still-hiding Soul … And yet if you show the true Courage required to put down your weapon, rediscover those treasures you most certainly will.

So hunters, PLEASE … stop straining your eyes to find what only your heart can See; and stop striving to know “power” and dominance in ways that only bring you weakness and cuckoldry. Please my Friends, come to finally remember what you have so long ago forgotten — that true Triumph comes from Giving; especially in those moments when you so desperately want to take; and that true Success comes from allowing others to live; especially in those instants when you so desperately want to kill.

Stop searching for “excitement” and “empowerment” via fear & murder … Extend your hand to Care for the innocent instead, and you will finally find what you have been hunting for all along.

Amen … Let it be so.
(inspired by Vanessa Curley)