We Are Brethren On A Journey Together

"Race, religion, gender and country of origin mean nothing. It is a journey of spiritual growth, and one in which we can offer a helping hand to one another."

Dear Reader, the preceding words came to me today during prayer and I share them with you. We place such importance on skin color or national origin or religion that we wage wars against each other over them, as we kill men, women and children and destroy their societies.

We who call ourselves Americans are so determined to do this, we are bankrupting ourselves morally and financially. In turn, this enrages the surviving family members who angrily plot a course of revenge, and the cycle of brutality becomes endless.

As IED's in Iraq and Afghanistan, or Timothy McVeigh in the U.S. have shown us, the means of revenge are readily available to anyone with little more than the price of a pizza in his pocket.

Yet every single person is a spiritual being currently in body, in search of growth, during a very short lifetime. And we are all in this life together. If only we would at least try to love and nurture one another, and respect our differences rather than attempting to impose our will over those who diagree with us.

Some of these words have also come in prayer over the years. Just think what we who call ourselves Americans could accomplish if we took the vast sums we spend on weapons to kill others and to occupy what they see as their nations, and instead offered them education, medical care, electricity, clean water and other essentials.

What if we offered them jobs and assurance of a better future? What if we did the same for those who live in America? In the end, national boundaries mean nothing and we could unite as people to help one another to build better, more productive and more spiritually meaningful lives.

Dick