I Didn't March...

Hello, Everyone!

No, I didn't march.  And since the march I've read a number of posts on Facebook defending not marching and/or asserting the need to at least support others who did or wanted to.

At 75 I've marched, of course.  I've fought in professional and educational and legal arenas to be recognized as a valued human being.  And I've fought my internal battles to undo what personal history and karma have taught me. 

My daughter-in-love marched in D.C. and her sis and bro marched in the Twin Cities.  What a powerful statement they made and will continue to make in following intentional paths to sustain and build on human rights.

But I believe the most important thing they've done is to set the bar higher for my two granddaughters.
And I hope the other point to be made is not whether we marched, but that we are all human and deserve respect.  

How is it that we can gather in unity and fall apart in dissension when we realize we are individuals?

Correlating with this is an issue in my church.  In this place that I love these people I love are pulling apart in dissension.  In this place where the Sacred is its foundation, I wonder whether we are forgetting our foundations.  "Let Peace begin with me..."  Have the words become simply a ritual?

Our country is in a similar condition, isn't it? As my friend, Nancy, said so succinctly this morning, we are the microcosm.  So let's not forget that we reflect the macrocosm; that the planet's plan is our plan.  We are all simply doing the very best we can to play out the part that we've written into our own script.

Every action generates a reaction. Let's take a breath and instead make it a response, to gentle the energy of whatever others choose to write into their script that differs from our own.  

If we can keep this perspective, whether it's human rights or political rhetoric, spiritual seeking or personal growth, this old world will be the beneficiary.  Whatever we owe it, we owe ourselves first.  Let's breathe and become the initiators of what  we want to see.

Peace and Ease,
Phyl-EL