The challenge we as world servers confront now is how to usher in the new through the death process of the old paradigm. We are called to stay aligned with our collective mission as a vanguard of change and to continue to serve as a physical bridge for those who are ready to move into more advanced states of consciousness. And we are asked to complete this task at a time when humanity has only begun to shake off the chains of the old ways. The task may appear daunting, at best.
During your unabashedly courageous defense of civil liberties and the “submerged America” at the Golden Globe Awards the other night, you referred to actor Ryan Gosling in this manner: “Like all of the nice people, Ryan is a Canadian”.
In the midst of a storm, I looked up into the sky and knew that I would see the sun somewhere hidden in the clouds and the darkness, trying to peek through. It was then that I looked for the rainbow I knew would be there.
This morning I was on Facebook and I saw that someone I know had liked a page from a “Happiness Coach.” I clicked on the link and saw that this coach has over 252,000 page likes! Not to dismiss this person’s work, but what a perfect representation of where humanity is still at…a kind of “fluff over function” mentality that leaves the collective constantly searching for the next thing to give it a momentary reprieve from its pain and suffering.
Nativity - A moving Christmas memory by Kevin Annett
"a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." – Ted Kennedy, eulogizing his assassinated brother Bobby in 1968