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Today I Felt Like Jesus

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Monday, 01 November 2010 11:45

Today I felt like Jesus. I stood out on the corner with my 4' sign, Love Heals All, below the upside down American Flag with the Earth in the center and a $ sign on top of that, above it, it said "oops." I also held a smaller sign which said, "no more B.S." The big sign was left from the Gulf Oil Spill.
I felt like Jesus, on this day before elections, but I certainly do not believe I was able to hold or radiate the compassion and love which I Imagine he was capable of. I tried. But mostly I felt sad, and sorry for all the stressed out faces driving by.
I watched the masses of unhappy rushed humans driving by in big isolating, environmentally deadly metal boxes, on a beautiful clear blue morning which promises renewal with the growing life of nature, after some early rains.
I watched most folks avert their eyes, in the rush to make a living, in the rush to avoid really considering where we are and how we live and treat each other and all life.
How quickly we forget the gulf oil spill, or looming environmental catastrophes, or endless war, or starving children, as we drive in our little insular metal boxes. We think, "thank god this is not happening to us." But we are wrong. It is us, in our complacency and apathy, in our quest for individual empire and profit. Nature which supports us all is being hammered, regardless of our laws, which have little to zero to do with what is real or healthy.
We all seem to think that we are "right," whatever that means, and are willing to kill each other over it. I am so sick of the fundemented on any and all sides professing to be spiritual or religious, or to follow any particular saint or god. Quit your professing, all of us. It is time to start acting, being, and living what has actually been suggested by the sages of the ages. It sure seems like we shoot and string up anybody who suggests peace, or love, or turning the other cheek.
Stop splitting hairs, zip up your pants and empty your pocketbooks for something besides fear, hate, and war. If there is a hell, besides the one we seem to be creating in the here and now, well, I'll leave it at that.
No more Bullshit. Love Heals All. The rest is politics and our failings to do what we know is right. We know what love is, and what it looks like, and we are not living it.
Today I felt like Jesus, and I cried.

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