What’s Wrong with Everyone!

I think the world’s gone stark raving nuts. Have you paid attention to anything lately. Sane people don’t act like this. What is going on?

Look at these headlines! This is what’s happening in our world today! “India protests: 14 killed and more than 4,000 arrested in clashes against new citizenship law.” “Iowa woman said she ran over a 14-year-old girl because she ‘was a Mexican,’ police say.” “Study suggests obesity associated with greater greenhouse gas emissions.” “They Beat Her, Cut Off Her Hair, And Covered Her With Paint.” “NC children, seniors face high rate of food insecurity.” “Indiana woman sentenced after killing 3 kids trying to board school bus.” These are headlines I gathered in just a few minutes from around our world today. I tell you, the world is going off the deep end!

We need some calm, peaceful, love your neighbors attitudes. We’ve had enough of the in your face, I’m better than you, we don’t want you in our backyard, go back to where you came from attitude. Who will lead us in the right direction? There have been people, over the centuries that man has walked the earth, that have advocated for behaving differently. Somehow, each one of these gets their message twisted by some people to make it sound like those leaders actually meant the opposite of what they taught. Perhaps the most noteworthy of these was Jesus of Nazareth. How anyone could twist his words so that it becomes alright to be mean, rotten, deceitful, and harmful to others, I will never know. When asked what the greatest commandments were, Jesus said, first love The Creator with all your heart, mind, and spirit and then he said, second is to love others as much as The Creator loves you. How you contort those commandments into a license for treating any person or group of people in the manner that some people have been treated is a complete mystery to me.

It is December of 2019 not 3,000 BC! We humans should be more advanced but it seems like the only things we’re better at doing is killing, maiming, cheating, and doing harm to one another. In the USA we have the right to bear arms. What we forget is that with every right we grant ourselves (I say this because our Nation is a Nation of laws created by the consent of the people), I repeat, with every right we grant ourselves, comes the solemn responsibility to use that right in a manner that does not infringe upon the rights of others or do intentional, unjust harm to others. When we abuse our rights, they should be revoked. There are so many rights that have been abused by so many people but only a few ever lose their access to the right. If you’ve been dealt the right deck of cards and if you know how to play them, you can abuse your rights and never have to pay the price.

But here’s a secret you may not be aware of. In the end, your rewards will not depend on how much you’ve accumulated. Quite to the contrary, your rewards will be based on how you’ve used the resources entrusted to you to help make the world a better place for others. By doing this you demonstrate that you really got it. Those commandments, love the creator and love your neighbor; can we believe that anyone really believes in the messenger if they don’t believe he really was serious about his message? It’s not about who has the best and most, it’s about who shared the best and most. In this 2,019th Christmas Season, perhaps we could set aside the rhetoric and begin to share the unconditional love the creator shared with all of us. The question is never asked. It’s not about whether we are worthy or not. We are loved because we are. Maybe, just maybe, we should start sharing what was so freely given to us. Let’s stop the insanity. Let’s tone down the rhetoric and let’s start sharing the blessings we have received so abundantly. Merry Christmas All!