Hope, love, faith and trust are the keys to the world. Without hope we are lost. Without love we don't exist and without faith we fail to see our way.Working and living in the world requires a great deal of patience, love and understanding. We must be compassionate toward one another, allowing for growth, for guidance and for ignorance as well.
Recent events around the world all point to violent acts against humanity. The shooting of a young man, war crimes and still the struggle for control over land. We point our fingers at "others" who are to blame, never realizing that they could be like we once were. They could be living ignorantly to the truth of who they are and in scarcity themselves.
No matter what someone looks like on the outside; black, white, rich, poor; we all have our own inner prisons. It's the thoughts we believe about ourselves, the thoughts that we believe about our world that shape our very foundations and our very lives themselves. We express these thoughts to the world. We co-create our world with all those other souls that share in the creative process. The universe doesn't segregate between blacks and whites. The universe doesn't care which country you're from or what religion you practice. It simply does what it does. This is nature. Nature that we are all a part of. We are not manufactured puppets that exist on the earth. We are human beings created by divine manifestation with the earth.
We have done so much to get away from our roots. Our true divinity lies within. Our divine inheritance doesn't care if we are black or white. It doesn't care if we are a Christian or a Jew. Our divine inheritance is simply a part of who we are.
Knowing this makes us wonder why we have strayed so far. Going to war to kill over land seems stupid and thoughts and beliefs about the color of our skin, ignorant. Our wake up call is eminent. We will simply destroy ourselves or we will change the consciousness enough to change our reality. But as many before us have shown, change doesn't come easy. We must stand in the truth and stand in a place of knowing even in the midst of adversity.
If we look back at some of the greatest souls that walked the earth, we'll note their struggles, their triumphs, but most often their willingness not to engage in violence. Violence breeds violence and one of the best most notable and strong messages is just that: Peaceful resolution and reconciliation.
Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela all used non violence as part of their plan to necessitate the needed changes they saw in our world. We must do the same. For every act in hatred we must respond in love. As hard as it is, we simply cannot become haters like those that hate. If we do, we lose our hope, we lose our faith, and we lose our trust in the world. Taking steps to become the change; to become the example for others to live by will be the one catalyst in changing the world. Hatred cannot live inside love, just as the darkness can never extinguish the light.
