In case you did not
notice, I did little writing the past couple of weeks. Fact is, I was so in awe of the developments
in the world I began wondering if I had left reality and was stuck in Alice
At least in Alice
Can you believe it was not
even a month ago that a young man joined a Bible Study group at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. He was White and
they were all African American.
An hour later the visitor
stood up, pulled a gun, and executed nine members of the Parish including their
beloved Senior Pastor and State Senator, Clementa C. Pickney. When they caught the shooter the next day, they
found a Confederate Battle flag license plate holder on his car, and a Facebook
photo of him with a full size Confederate Battle flag spewing messages of hate.
Like most of the recent
cases of mass killings, the shooter was also on prescription drugs for
depression and the usual suspects.
Simply put, he was out of his mind, which is a known side effect from
these same prescription drugs. Makes you
wonder why the drug prescriptions are not part of the investigation.
As recent as 2012 we set a
record for the most mass killings in one year, but this year was
different. Several cities including St. Louis and Baltimore
Those psychics,
channelers, and prophets who predicted we were entering a period of chaos, sort
of a last warning that the Earth was ready to shift to a higher dimension or
energy frequency, well they seemed to be on the mark.
Everyone from politicians
to preachers, pastors to predators seemed to be going crazy simultaneously and
it was a bit disconcerting if you were inclined to be open to the psychic hot
lines. A proliferation of propaganda
flooded the Internet and overwhelmed the minds of those seeking truth or
perfection.
Competition grew into
hatred and madness erupted into murder.
People stopped respecting the right of others to disagree. If I had been a journalist back in the Dark
Ages, it would have been great preparation for what we just experienced, which
came to a climax that dreaded evening of June 17.
At the same time,
politicians were already spewing their own brand of hatred at each other. Every night I would just shake my head
hearing how the stated goal of most politicians was to destroy the credibility
of opposing politicians. President
Obama, who often was more of a lightning rod than a healer, did not set a
particularly healthy brand of leadership.
At that time when the lid
was about to blow off the volcano of evil poisoning the Earth, something quite
extraordinary, some described it as miraculous, overwhelmed our battle hardened
media and shook the foundations of humanity.
The families of the nine
victims faced the killer of their family members, and demonstrated that
humanity is not all lost, as they delivered their human acts of kindness forgiving
the very man who killed their loved ones barely 48 hours earlier.
Standing face-to-face
through video networking with the killer, their compassion shocked the world
with its message of forgiveness, of enlightenment, and a degree of grace seldom
seen in the modern world.
For once in recent news
media reporting the news focus was on the demonstration of grace, not the hatred
and violence that motivated the murders.
Once again I say when we listen to the people, really hear them out,
they demonstrate far greater wisdom than those we empower to represent them.
A band of South Carolina
Such an irony that the
first state to secede from the Union and bring about the Civil War, and the state
where the first fighting of the Civil War took place, would now be the first state
to demonstrate what is missing from society and government today, GRACE.
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