This is profoundly beautiful. Thank you for sharing. This past week has been a dark one, indeed.
I have spent the last few hours picking upon a message about the importance of understanding that we are all connected. I get that "thought" of human connection often. But this is a bit different.
A few centuries ago, my ancestors were walking through the same general area of land at the same time but on very different journeys. Most traveled to this country on wooden ships from Europe, England and even Africa. It must have been terrifying, traveling to an unknown world via a wooden ship on the unforgiving sea.
Some did not actually "travel" here at all for their ancestors had always lived here.
I am descended from people with diverse backgrounds leading very different lives but on pathways which would all one day connect together centuries into the future when I was eventually born.
Slave owners, indentured servants and slaves. Merchants, surveyors and farmers. Those fleeing countries from religious and political percecution. All winding up in a place called Virginia.
Over the centuries, their descendants moved their own families westward, in search of land and a better way of life. Often with a pioneering spirit, braving the unknown discovering new immigrant families. Amongst these more recent ancestors there were still many farmers but also ministers, sheriffs, explorers, jewelers, homesteaders, bankers, doctors, teachers and yes, even cowboys.
These are just some of things I know about the people I am connected to from my past. My ancestors.
Who knows from what varied backgrounds my future descendants (God willing) might find their own connections.
The odds are good that their ancestors will not only be comprised of Biden supporters, but those whom also supported Trump, just as my ancestors fought on both sides during the Civil War and American Revolution. Their DNA will likely be made up of people fleeing countries on ships traveling over land, sea and air, due to climate change and economic hardships.
It is my belief that all of our descendants, every human being on earth, will one day recognize that everyone is connected. Their DNA will even prove it. Hopefully this awareness will bring forth an age of Agape. Agape is the most universal and altruistic form of love which exists.
But while I hope an age of Agape may be commonplace in the future, I believe the message I am getting is that we need to start practicing this altruistic form of love now. If we want there to be an age of Agape, WE need to lay the foundation now. WE need to recognize these human connections that bind us all together and act in universal love towards all of humanity.
This is not easy to do in the Age of Trump. Trump however has provided us a beautiful opportunity to recognize our connectivity, to shine light in a dark world and share love when fear is palatable.
When you believe there is nothing you can do, when you find yourself overcome by fear, take a moment to pause. Reset.
Allow love to enter your being and begin again in forward motion to plant a seed of love. The seeds you plant now may be the foundation for a garden of AGAPE in the future. A future garden your descendants will be able to cultivate into fields of love.
On Saturday several of you sent me messages of hope in response to my discouragement. I bounced back to center after reading your messages. Every time I wrote a thank-you message, I was so filled with gratitude that I couldn't say all I wanted to say, so my reply never posted. So I want to thank you @frank @baba, @FEBbby23, @deetoo for your beautiful visions and messages of hope.
@frank, you wrote: I choose to believe that Spirit is guiding this Great Transformation and that things, both good and bad (from our perspective), are happening to move things forward, but maybe the actual effects are only visible from a much higher perspective."
Your beautiful words reminded me of how spirit has shown me over the last thirty-five years that higher perspective -- that I've seen key moments of transformation so that I would not give up. Then right before I read your post I got a sign:
A close millennial friend who lives in NYC was lamenting about how all of her young friends are moving out of the city. She said they initially fled Covid in April to go live with their parents, but so far none has returned.
Then I saw the sign -- that one of the most prominent visions of the coming transformation that spirit showed me way back in 1985 when I first began giving readings, was a highway filled with young urban professionals (now called Millennials) walking like refugees out of the city and upstate. Up ahead of them was a cliff that was the new higher plane of existence we'd all have climb.
It is beautiful the way we get visions of that higher perspective, and then when we lose faith, someone pops in and reminds us. Thank you, community.
I just saw a clip of an amazing lady helping stray cats. She doesn't have a car as far as I can see and works full-time. This person started helping, because she wanted too. I have posted animal videos before, but I think this one belongs in this thread for one simple reason.
Watching this lady doing what she is doing shows just how much goodness there is in the US (and world). There is nothing more hopeful than people like this. She *is* that beautiful world our hearts yearn for. From the people who help disabled animals on great farms to just one person like this, doing it on their own just because it is the right thing to do. To me, that is the most beautiful thing a human-being can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLGg1k8JLfE
@moonbeam I loved the video of that woman. It gives me such faith for our world to see people like her devoting her life to saving animals, and all without a car.
I grew up with a woman like that. Like the woman in the video, MaryJane didn't drive-- she did it all on foot. She lived with us when I was a child, helped my mother a bit in exchange for room and board, and worked in town as a bookkeeper. She became part of our family.
She was always living hand to mouth because she spent all of her money on spaying stray cats. People brought animals to her from miles around and she took them to the vets and paid to have them spayed and fostered. She also paid for their lodging at the vet until they could be fostered. This was in the 1960's when there was no free alternative. After we grew up and my parents moved away, she left that job, and everyone scattered.
I was driving past her old job location one day and the building had been torn down and in its place was a four story animal hospital! I told her about it and we both just filled up with wonder.
She was an unsung hero to thousands of animals, but she silently created an energy that manifested that animal hospital.
Are you liberal? Are you sure? This study gives hope that we can actually become united as a country -- that we may not be as divided as we think we are and we are actually more politically flexible than we have been led to believe.
In a clever psych study, experimenters tricked the subjects into defending political views they disagreed with. “They told us, ‘Thank God I’m not a left-winger,’” says Philip Parnamets, a psychologist who helped design the crafty experiment that would trick its subjects into defending a political view they disagreed with. “They were like, I didn’t know I could think this way.” Which made Parnamets realize something: “You could see this as a tool for self-discovery. It seemed to open up the possibility of change.”