We ALL matter … (04/02/16)
My dear Friends, each & every one of us has a unique road to walk during this wild & crazy ride called Life — each one of us has a trail that only we can tread, and each one of us encounters trials & tragedies along that path that only we can ever truly know or comprehend.
That having been said, there ARE a few things all our individual paths do indeed share — there ARE a few traits that all our roads do indeed have in common. And one of those commonalities is an inevitable Expansion of Empathy …
Yes, while it does seem true that some of us wait much longer than others to have our Hearts blossom — and while it does seem true that a few even wait until the very end of their lives to begin to deeply Care for those around them, that Day of Caring; that day when we no longer see strangers as strange and we no longer see our enemies as evil — that day will indeed come to us all. It will come to us all, and it will come with great power and great intensity and almost overwhelming purity. It will come to every single one of us, and when it does the only thing we will want to do is get up and go do something — ANYTHING — to make the world a better, more Joy-full &/or more Peace-full place.
I know I have a long way to go on my own personal Journey of Awakening, AND I also feel my Heart waking up more & more each day … I feel myself feeling deep Kindness towards random strangers and a deep-seated Compassion for my enemies … I realize with ever-increasing clarity that I too only have a few years (or maybe only a few months, or maybe even only a few days) left in my lifetime to make things better, and that’s pretty much all I want to do anymore …
And I think that is why I LOVE these images so much … I LOVE them because they are raw proof that I am not alone — that others’ Hearts are waking UP with mine … And I LOVE them because they make me want to get up and get out there and hug the scariest person I can find (or at least smile at them and say a warm Hello) … And I LOVE them because they inspire me to be Kind to the people in my life who are not being very Kind to me, and to reach out with warmth & softness to those around me who are not being very Kind to others …
I guess I LOVE them because they give me hope for Humanity. I LOVE them because in a time when we are all facing so much corruption and so much violence and so much hatred and so much danger — they show the Truth that so many of us are still having the courage to act from a place of LOVE.
I don’t really know if our species is going to make it, and yet I do know that we still have a chance … And I don’t know if enough of us are going to join me in my fight to get us to evolve to a different Way of Being with one another, and yet I do know that I do make a difference (we ALL do) — and I do know that I am going to keep going out there each day to do my small-but-significant part to maybe get us to the place of Humble Empathy where we definitely need to go.
Amen … Let it be so for you as well today!
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