Human Rights

Art by William Haskell 

In my lifetime, I have seen many advances in our understanding and the implementation of so-called human rights. We have seen the Voting Rights Act, Title IX sex discrimination legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act. Supreme Court rulings overturned state bans on contraception and interracial marriage. Abortion and same-sex marriage have been legalized. It seems odd that our government would have to guarantee these fundamental human rights, but many things had become illegal since our country’s inception, and women and minorities were always stifled when it came to voting and holding certain stations in life. We made many advances during the 1900s, and we were proud of our open minds and higher thinking. Now it seems many people think these human rights are not necessarily something which should be legislated. I agree they shouldn’t have to be, as as we are all one in Spirit. Well, I won’t go on and on about this. It’s pretty simple if we let our beliefs and ego fade away and allow Love to rule our ways. Namaste…

“Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you. You have been promised full release from the world you made. You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost. We ask no more than what belongs to us in truth. Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not content ourselves with less.” 

—A Course in Miracles W-77.3:1-5

"The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be proportionate to its embodiment of right-thinking. A few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipotence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic fetters and abolish the whipping post and slave market, but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator." 

—Mary Baker Eddy -- circa 1865

Unleash the Love

I regularly listen to the unpacking of A Course in Miracles workbook lessons, translated and interpreted by Corrine Walson and Nouk Sanchez. Recently they used the term “unleash the Love”. What a beautiful image that creates, does it not? I’m also reading the book in the lead photo which is shown here. I’m at a point in it where the author is discussing our inhumane treatment of our animal neighbors. As I pondered our thoughtless actions toward our planet and its inhabitants, many things came to mind. I shall not delineate them here. All I will say is let’s unleash the Love! In this season of renewal and resurrection, I’m going to consistently use every action, every thought, with the intention of unleashing this force which is the strongest thing there is!! Let’s Love Out Loud!!

“God is the Life, or intelligence, which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals as well as of men.”
—Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 550:3-7

“Our Father, bless our eyes today. We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything. We live and move in You alone. We are not separate from Your eternal life. There is no death, for death is not Your Will. And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever. We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally. Amen.”
—A Course in Miracles W-163.9:1-8