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 How To Love When You Hate What’s Happening
Posted: Wednesday January 12, 2005 6:23 PM EST
 On addressing the disappointing election result, a victory for the manipulation of ignorance, fear and greed, and the aftermath of the very seductive pull of depression, anger. Despair, feeling powerless and hopeless, resignation, cynicism, and «give-up-what’s the-use» anguish that all rear their ugly heads. All of these feelings need to be honored and given healthy expression for they are all manifestations of loss and grief, which when experienced consciously and their voices allowed to be heard, can resolve and help us move forward in a positive way. It can help to remember that this is a perfect time to acknowledge that outcomes are in bigger hands than ours, and that a vast, great and sacred mystery is running the show, not any one individual, and that faith and trust entails going forward with an open, loving heart in the face of the darkness of coming winter (literal and figurative)—and that our vision can not truly see what is for the greatest good. More so than ever we are called to live our highest values, BE the change we want to see in the world, shape-shift reactivity, divisiveness and fear with wisdom that remembers on the deeper levels of our being we are all related in a web of invisible connectivity that is the sacred circle of life. We need to live out moral values in how we treat ourselves, each other and all beings in that sacred circle, ALL BEINGS, including those who believe differently than we. More so than ever we need to be supportive of each other in living our spirituality in all our relationships, doing our prayers and our individual and collective-community rituals and ceremonies to empower faith and truth, to empower our spirits and our hearts in staying open, staying loving, and being the peace we want to manifest in the world. As the days grow dark and the times threaten to be even darker, we are called to work deeper to connect with the light within and to be a conduit for it into the larger field. We are each given spiritual gifts from the Creator and challenges are the time to use those gifts and bring them through. May our individual efforts unite in a collective «grid-field» of growing light illuminating the truth that love is the key to creating a peaceful and just world for all? The following readings and quotes are offered as logs to feed the sacred fire bringing forth more light, warmth, comfort, encouragement, wisdom guidance and support through the winter season ahead. May it be so? First off, some wisdom words from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Love and Hate. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear....Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate is rooted in fear, and the only cure for fear and hate is love. When i speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life....the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality… In the struggle for human dignity, ...along the way of life, someone must have sense enough...to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives… The highest good is love. This principle is at the center of the cosmos. It is the great underlying force of life. God is love. He who loves has discovered the clue to the meaning off ultimate reality… it does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes...it is love seeking to preserve and create community...a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursed this self-defeating path of hate. We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who posses power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.”
“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
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