There are themes I can't avoid because they are in my face every moment of every day. We see glaring examples in the news of the 'us vs them' mentality all the time. This 2024 yet anti-semitism is at an all time high. USC cancelled it's graduation speakers because of possible violence around it's speakers. Yet this is a country of free speech. People following the Jewish faith tradition are being told to leave Columbia University because of the hate climate on campus.
Much earlier in my blogs I wrote about how I can't understand being mean to another -person. My belief system is always feeling blessed because we are on this planet in conjunction with everyone else. Then I add in the truth that everyone is made in the image of God and I get caught up in the sacred.
I'm reminded of the monastery in Europe. The days of young men lining up to join the monks was over. There were fewer and fewer monks each year and it was appearing a day was approaching when they might have to close the facility.
One of the monks went to Rome to meet with the Holy Father, the Pope! The abbott explained the entire story to the papal leader. The Pope said the monastery had forgotten one thing;. One of you at the monastery is Jesus on earth and you must remember that!
The monk went back to the monastery with that news and started to wonder who it was?
Was Jesus Brother John who worked so hard harvesting the crops and producing the wondrous meals? Was it Brother Luke who kept the monastery clean and repaired? He just didn't know.
He went back and shared the truth that Jesus was at the monastery. Soon all the monks were treating each other with the respect and love given to Jesus. After all, one of them was Jesus! Within a year or two, the reputation of the monastery spread as a place filled with the Divine. Soon new monk applicants were lined up to join because after all Jesus was at the monastery.
So it just confuses me that peoplle can actually do mean things to each other or even be mean-spirited. I still believe that life is a Hallmark movie and everything will be good in the end.
Go out this day and meet the Divine in each face you see. Meet the Divine in each heart you touch. Meet the Divine in all your communications for such is your goal in life. You are here to be the Divine! So just do it............
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