Dear Kate. and Susan..and Catherine Beautifully put (see below)... On this day, Sunday 16th March 2003, where I see in the headlines that there is no stopping the mad and bad from gashing the world with their tools of power.... your points have a particular resonance with how I try to live my life, the fears I have for my children, and how I have observed the power of good and healing working within it.
It takes courage to resist. Some would judge a pacifist stance as that of weakness or cowardice but nothing good ever comes of War... As a community we are in for a testing time. Maybe with hope and trust and real intention to do the best we can, we can see each other through what is going to be (unless a miracle happends) the most dreadful time. I feel sorry for the Iraqis who have had to live under Saddam, I feel sorry for our troops, and their troops, and the US troops who must, inside their souls, wonder what the hell they are doing there... This is not, despite the mileage involved, going to be a distant war. IT will touch us all one way and other, just as it will touch the Iraqi citizens. May I make a suggestion... That on the list we have no talk of victory, no talk of people getting their "just rewards", no talk of "we showed them what for".... To do so would be to gloat over blood spilt, lives ended and tears shed and ultimately for the loss of humanity.... This poem, added by me to a previous post still sums up (for me at least) the feelings we need to have in this world If night should come sooner than we thought it might remember that I loved you. Not, I grant, a love that sacrifices truth or light but still a love that leant the world a heart on some warm secret hillside in the night. Lucy KATE WROTE > i have seen first hand how the power of my thoughts create reality & i have > witnessed miracles in my life & in those of my loved ones...i have done/am > doing what i can to petition, write, call, protest, pray... > > so now, for me, it is time to put all of my energies into being & creating > peace & love...to breathe it in & out...for this is a good place to be no > matter what :~} there is just more of a reason to remind myself to stay in > it... EDIT > > who knows what unseen forces might come into play if everyone who believes > the words of MLK (below) is able to call upon this vision....NOBODY yet > knows the outcome of things to come because the future has not yet happened > & in spite of appearances anything CAN happen... EDIT > SUSAN WROTE (AMONGST OTHER THINGS) "So while I challenge the sense and sensibility of those in power and leading us to the abyss, I know in their own minds there is some sort of inner personal logic taking place. But there are some tools sorely missed, - real hope, real humanity, real foresight, and this is what has killed the one main ingredient of hope we need to wade through this mess. TRUST. My fear and latest assailant on my hope, is that there is no trust and almost no chance it can be repaired - TRUELY repaired. Even if we all stretched our arms, and wrapped ourselves around eachother, right now, what chance that other plans would not be slyly being made. What trust is, can not be minimized. It is the basis for your work, your love, your family, your friendships, your ego. To trust your instincts. " CATHERINE WROTE I'm scared and my kids are scared and I don't know what to tell them apart from, "They don't have bombs that can reach here." I'm lost for words. Iraqis have kids too - what are they telling their kids? -------------------------------------- Women of heart and mind.......... Lets pray, to whatever higher power that exists, for something to stop this headlong rush to mayhem
