To make a better place … (07/27/16)
The news headlines are really getting to be be a bummer these days — downright depressing, actually … Drone strikes in the Middle East inspiring terrorist strikes closer to home, corrupt politicians buying elections in a now-defunct democracies, thousands of innocent animals needlessly tortured & murdered every day by otherwise Good People who callously look away from the Truth of their food choices, and systemic racism & deep-seated bigotries filling our society with violence & anger & sadness … It’s enough to get Good-Hearted people to give up; to throw their hands up in the air while they sit idly on their sofas; to feel helpless as they wish they could do something to stop this juggernaut of injustice from causing so much pain.
Well, there IS something(s) each & every you can do to make the world a better place — and the more courage it takes to do that unique Goodness, the more change for the better it will bring. Maybe it’s cleaning up &/or beautifying your neighborhood … Maybe it’s being radically Kind to strangers (especially those you tend to fear) … Maybe it’s openly & unconditionally forgiving someone who has wronged you … And maybe it’s joining a social cause to fight for justice in your community.
My Friends, whatever it is that you do to make the world a better place, you CAN make the world a better place … Maybe we can’t fix everything, and maybe our juggernaut of injustice will indeed roll along its less-then-merry way, AND YET WE CAN do our part to see that at least a few of its passengers know some Peace along the way.
And who knows, maybe — just maybe — if enough of us get out there and DO what we can DO, maybe that ship will one day alter its course … and finally sail into the calm harbor of a society Peace-full and Kind.
Amen … Let it be so.
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