@baba Thank you, Baba. There has been an uptick in violence in recent weeks around the country. So I am always especially vigilant about surrounding Obama with protection. I send angels to his side and see them whirling around him and then gathering above his crown and dropping a cascading light that is bullet and bomb proof.
The shield they form around him sparks images of the shield they erected the day he was first elected to the presidency and walked out onto a Chicago platform with his family to a joyous crowd.
He said that day:
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
- @baba please and thank you!!! The nasty ads from GQP are tainting Warnock with dubious half told stories casting him in the worst light.. even some of my staunch Dem friends are questioning him... I got so frustrated I told one of them - ok ... so even if you chose to believe that? Without following the trail to the truth? You are going to NOT vote? Or even worse vote for Herschel???? Warnock has proven himself as one who IS working for the people of Georgia already... Herschel is at best a former football star and hero with resultant brain damage being a useful puppet for the GQP!! A loose cannon!! Stop!! Think!!! Do your due diligence!!! Then??? Weigh the consequences of your vote.... make the choice you believe is in the best interest of our state, our Democracy.
On a side note there... Sen. Lindsay Graham complied with his subpoena after months of evasion and testified for over 2 hours to Fani Willis Grand Jury on the infamous phone calls made to Raffensperger.
So pray and send Light ... for our warriors in Democracy and for Warnock and Obama.
Jeanne said this is a place to ask for heart strength. I sorely need some. I am sick again and in pain again on a vacation week again. I am not catching many breaks.
Trying to say stop to negative thoughts and repeating the word HEALING but without the heart strength it rings hollow.
I cannot bring myself to read about the latest murders. It weakens me. I feel overly saturated and am tagging out for a bit.
STILL I am very Sad for America and glad to be here with like minded souls.
Remembering Christine McVie.
Here is a lovely version of her Fleetwood Mac song Songbird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRyYETnoIE
@lovendures This pulls at the end of an era heartstrings. Loved her music.
Asking for prayers for our school children and their families and their teachers. Yesterday was a day of terror for many of our children, and their parents.
many of my friends and former co-workers have children in public school, many I have known and I love and have watched grow up. It pains me to know of their terror and PTSD here in a red red area..knowing their parents do NOT support gun control laws and seem to think that arming teachers is the way to go. Yes they are of the GQP persuasion. They have voted for Kemp and have voted for Herschel Walker. It pains me to see that they have been blinded to all that is so wrong with all of that!! There is no easy solution to active mass shooters... but not allowing access to assault rifles ... especially to those under 25 years old...seems a good place to start!!!
I am asking for prayers for all of our nation as it seems these "active shooter hoaxes " are ramping up.. and then... real ones actually occurring still.... We have a generation growing up with PTSD from attending public school?!?!?!? Does anyone have any idea on how we can stop/change this war on our children???
@journeywithme2 Hi, I don’t know how America can change itself around. I know in our case with the Port Arthur massacre, I think everyone could see them selves there, it was a place we had been to or were hoping or planning to go to. I myself had been there a couple of months before and had coffee in the cafe. We also had a Prime Minister who acted. I guess maybe the thought it could have been my family, myself, made people happy to comply. We were in the right frame of mind to act and accept the change. On another level our psyche tends to be more mateship and a fair go rather than personal freedom over everything. So we came from a different place.
I hope that you can change things.
regards to all
@matildagirl I would think being a mother , and your child in school is on lock down...LEO swarming the school looking for the "active shooter" and the local hospital getting ready for multiple trauma patients would be enough to make them stop and think!!!!
Sadly... most answer here that they think the teachers should have a weapon!!!! Excuse me.... have you had combat practice? have you ever had to kill a living being? On top of all the other BS you are putting teachers through? You want them to be trained to kill?
God help us!
I am really hoping Joe Biden will help lead us out of here. He is anti assault weapons.
The worship of guns and generational isolation, abuse and cult fringes of our country being hateful, is ingrained in many, but most of us want common sense gun laws. We have to keep the pressure up in every way we can. We have to continue to do character building education in our schools. We have to continue using anti bullying curriculum.
It is official. My child is not allowing me to visit.
The song Harden My Heart has begun playing loudly in a loop in my head.
To quote Shakespeare: "This is the most unkindest cut of them all."
I prayed for help to detach. Careful What You Wish For. Now I can detach. With anger.
The girl needs therapy. I will never trust her again.