Decades ago, when the “moral majority” began its judgmental march to stamp out all that is liberal and based in free thought, we didn’t think it could possibly take hold of enough people to shape our society. We thought that they were a silly fringe group with prejudiced ideas, and there was no reason to take them seriously. Well, through the last 45 years we have seen what repetition of lies and hateful rhetoric can do to shape a society. It has made a certain faction of people believe that they are right and everyone else is wrong. They have elected politicians which push their policies, our Supreme Court has been stacked with judges more interested in material positions than the rule of law, and our supreme leader is a dictator who wants to dominate everyone but has no idea why. When a young woman was murdered in cold blood yesterday by the Gestapo, we were overwhelmed with dismay. Many of us are depressed, more of us are angry, a few of us are doing our best to see through the illusion. When I see people yelling in anger, or being brutal while drunk on their power, I do my best to see them as they were created, not as they have become. I have never seen harsh words negate harsh words, nor violent actions create peace. We all have something we can do to tip the balance away from fear and toward Love. It doesn’t matter how small the act may seem to you. Your actions are exponentially powerful. Don’t stop believing …
“The symbols of hate against the symbols of love play out a conflict that does not exist. For symbols stand for something else, and the symbol of love is without meaning if love is everything. You will go through this last undoing quite unharmed, and will at last emerge as yourself. This is the last step in the readiness for God. Be not unwilling now; you are too near, and you will cross the bridge in perfect safety, translated quietly from war to peace. For the illusion of love will never satisfy, but its reality, which awaits you on the other side, will give you everything.”
A Course in Miracles T-16.IV.2:1-6
“The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power. As manifested by mankind it stands for a lie, nothing claiming to be something, — for lust, dishonesty, selfishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, adultery, murder, dementia, insanity, inanity, devil, hell, with all the etceteras that word includes.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 330:24-32
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