LOVE

It is a gorgeous spring day! It is cool. Only 38 F, but Sunny and calm. There is only a tiny strip of snow left in my neighbors yard, where a mountain six feet tall stood a couple weeks ago. Looking out my study window I cannot see any significant snow without craning my neck. Unfortunately, our backyard is still replete with the white stuff.

This has been a perfect day for me so far and may it continue. I only have one complaint, I stubbed my toe a couple days ago and it still hurts enough to limit any walking adventures. It is getting better but the mile walk I had planned will have to be postponed. I don't think I am quite ready for a mile walk anyway, but I think I could handle a half mile.

I will be happy when the forces that attempt to divide us into camps are attenuated. I was always happy to be dubbed a radical liberal or anything else one wanted to call me. However, labeling and polarization is extreme. It is at the point where one doesn't want to explore ideas because we are tarred with one brush or another and herded into camps and labeled a friend or foe. There are certain subjects I would never bring up unless I knew the people very well. Is it safe to say the Sun is yellow, the sky is blue and grass is green?

Can we start at the beginning and ask what we all need to be happy? Is it safe to say we all want to be loved and appreciated? We all want to be healthy. We all want healthy relationships. The vast majority of us want companionship. Most of us want to be part of supportive functioning family or group. We want peace, joy and security. We want an opportunity to pursue the expression of our gifts. We want the satisfaction of knowing we are contributing. We want decent housing, food and clothing.

We have been doing a good, or not so good job, of supplying these wants and needs through our social structures for eons. The catch seems to be not on what we need and want, but how society should supply it. We have tried capitalism, socialism, communism, monarchies, feudalism and many other ways. They all have had their ups and downs. It seems the problem has been more with who has been running things rather than the system itself. No system works when those who worship power and money are in charge. No system works when there is a competition to manipulate public opinion. No system works when people are purposely divided against each other. No system works when people are seen as unequal. No system works when one group thinks they have the only truth.

There are many good souls who have hearts that could engulf the Earth that work in these systems. They make all of their decisions out of love. How often are they found at the top of the decision making pyramid? Regardless of what system has been in place we have tended to keep the most loving people out of the power positions. The leaders of these systems have all been seduced by power and wealth despite what they profess.

So the last several centuries the shit has risen to the top as they say. My heart tells me that time is over.

There is no reason in the world why we don't have health care for all, free education, decent housing, food, clothing etc. for all. We could eliminate world poverty in a few years. It just takes a little loving intent. What has been spent on useless wars in the last ten years would be more than enough to eliminate poverty.

Is there any problem we can't solve just by loving each other? There are millions of loving people already working in the systems who are willing to take leadership positions and help us move into a new age.

We need to crank up the energy and not be shy about saying that the solution to the World's problems is love. That is not farfetched. It is not out of reach. It is not a pie in the sky solution. We know how to take care of ourselves and each other, we just need to do it.

Let us do what we can to slow down the divisiveness. That is how we have been manipulated into keeping the shit folks at the top. We are all equal. We are all deserving of love and all the benefits of a loving society. Don't let the shit people label you or anyone else. Look for the love in all. Even the shit-worshipers have a center of true self, which is love buried deeply, heavily disguised by what they have been worshiping.

There is a reason why we were advised, not to judge and that we cannot worship both God and Mammon.

Happy Friday! I love you!

Love and Peace, Gregg