proliferation of hatred

1 June 2009

8:00pm

 

I don’t want to live in a world with so much hatred and violence.  How can this exist?  And, why?  Why are people pushed to such extremes? And, how come we all keep living while there is a war our country started, destruction all over the place and violence against one another? 

 

When will we stop killing each other, the world and ourselves?  When will we stop meaningless fighting and rhetoric and start really focusing on one another’s lives and our mutual interdependence?

 

When will we stop hierarchical, hurtful ways of being and living and governing and begin to empower all people to be free and compassionate?

 

I am so, so sad at the murder of Dr. George Tiller.  I am so sad that all of us allowed it to get this far.  And, I am so sad that this won’t be the end of violence.  Don’t people see?  Abortion will and must continue to be legal and safe and taking place.  If you think otherwise, you live in a very uncaring and ignorant place-with very little empathy and ability to imagine life and other people’s lives or even understand a variety of situations that could occur in our own life.  And now, a caring man who worked to protect and honor and take care of women, families and communities when so many of us are too afraid to do so ourselves, is dead.  And, for what?  And, who will benefit?  Not his family.  Not his clinic or clients or all the women and families that rely on his services for a life-saving procedure.  Not all the health care professionals that every single day face rioters and have to live in a perpetual state of fear and anxiety that they will be the next or that it will be their doctor or clinic.  And for what reason?  For some supposed life advocated?  NO WAY! NOT POSSIBLE!  NO ONE who does this and is so hateful and so violent believes in or values life, love, respect and understanding.

 

When will we all start listening and stop our shouting?  And when will we stop and realize that life is preserved and protected in the way we walk on this earth and treat one another.  When will we meet and utilize compassion and understanding in our listening and speaking and acting? 

 

When will we recognize that this is not a game to be won or lost, but about real decisions and complex, confusing and challenging situations?

 

When will we learn that violence is never, ever the way? 

And, when will we live it and not just teach it to our children and then do the opposite of the ideals that we preach?

 

My heart and spirit ache as my whole body cries for this unbelievable tragedy. 

 

Please, whoever you are, do whatever you can to spread love, peace, compassion, understanding.  And, please start to listen, REALLY LISTEN, more than you shout.  And please, feel- we have to start feeling so we can stop and never start again the violence, hatred and war. 

 

We don’t have to live this way.  We can choose life-peace-truth-health-healing-We can choose to love and be loved.  CHOOSE LOVE!