My heart is broken. Human suffering is too much to bear. 20,000 children are starving to death daily, needlessly, while the 250 richest people on the planet have as much wealth as 3 billion humans*. And how many of our daughters are being abused, raped and sold into slavery? And how many of our sons are being killed and being asked to kill in senseless wars justified by anything and everything all the way up to God. And how many species are going extinct every year. Do we care? How could we not?
Something is wrong with this picture! That is obvious.
It is too easy to say "they are bad and we are the victim"; or, less commonly, "I am bad and you are the victim". That is more of the same.
We can only realize, for ourselves, that we need each other, that this is not sustainable. We can only realize, for ourselves, that, we are all the same; that we all need the same things; that we all have things to contribute; that we are all in the same boat; that we are all better off cooperating and sharing rather than warring.
We cooperate or we perish! Well, perish we will anyway, but what kind of trip do you want to have on the way?
Peace or war? Love or violence? What happens when violence meets violence? What happens when love meets violence? What does that look like?
Are you willing? I am, for I think it will look better than what I see now. I suspect it is nothing like we fear. I suspect it is more than we can imagine.
Will you join me? One day, you will. Why wait? (For many good reasons, none of which is based in reality; all of which are based on a concept.)
Here I Am - meeting violence with love, and it feels like it will break my heart. It feels like it will destroy me, but I think it is healing me.
I think that meeting violence with love looks like healing, not like illness and death.
Will you join me now?
*I guarantee you that these numbers are inaccurate. It could be far worse, and even if it were better, it is not by much. To pursue the exact number is to miss the point, (but if you happen to know or want to find the exact number, please, share it with me).
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