In Togetherness, There is Responsibility

Citizens’ Advice To Congress is the title of an article in which three people express their ideas on how leaders can govern our democracy. One of the people interviewed was Antoinette Tuff. She was a substitute teacher in Decatur, Georgia when a young man with an AK-47 and a backpack of ammunition came into the school and announced, “We’re all going to die today”. She said her motherly instincts kicked in, not just for the children, but also the mentally ill young man. She started out by telling him, no, we’re not going to do this. In the nine minutes it took to talk him down, she repeatedly told him no one would be mad at him if he stood down, and that she loved him. Sully Sullenberger, the pilot who landed a plane in the Hudson River, saving all the people on board, said that he chose the least bad option — and he was glad to have it. Of our democracy crisis he states: “We’ve all gotten a real wake-up call. We’ve had the biggest civics lesson of our lives.” Everyday citizens have to keep on solving problems. A plumber in the D.C. area, Pete Kristiansen, says: “I understand laws enacted by Congress are big, important things. But we do big, important things, too. So if we can get things done, they should, too.” To our Congress he says, “In togetherness, there is responsibility.” Namaste…

“A feasible as well as rational means of improvement at present is the elevation of society in general and the achievement of a nobler race for legislation, — a race having higher aims and motives.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 63:23-27

“Our function is to work together, because apart from each other we cannot function at all. The whole power of God’s Son lies in all of us, but not in any of us alone. God would not have us be alone because He does not will to be alone. That is why He created His Son, and gave him the power to create with Him. Our creations are as holy as we are, and we are the Sons of God Himself, as holy as He is. Through our creations we extend our love, and thus increase the joy of the Holy Trinity. You do not understand this, because you who are God’s Own treasure do not regard yourself as valuable. Given this belief, you cannot understand anything.” 

A Course in Miracles T-8.VI.8:4-11