Having just passed another birthday, which always falls during political time frames, I perceive a nation and a world at the precipice of the most critical period in the history of man. In mankind’s infancy the effects of inherited prejudices, whether national, religious, political, racial, cultural or economic, were generally confined to limited territories due to lack of knowledge, coupled with lack of scientific and technological advancement. A sharp allusion to such fact was made during one of the two presidential debates preceding this week’s historic election as one candidate cited huge reduction in our nation’s weakened military.
We also have fewer bow and arrows, horses, bayonets and foot solders than before due to the sophistication of today’s warfare.
When infants fight they may scratch, kick, or do any number of things that would cause less detriment than when adults fight. So too, with the maturity of mankind. Wars once fought on battlefields among solders are now done from the air and command posts on the ground involving a minimal of manpower to destroy and contaminate a maximum number of people-the good with the bad, the innocent than the guilty.
Then there’s the staggering amount of $multi-Billions spent not just on war but for the first time in history on presidential campaigns by each candidate.
With no money to be found to sustain, much less improve the constantly changing challenges of today’s public as well as private education systems or to adequately address the medical and other basic needs of the elderly-on whose backs this youthful nation was built, there is something definitely wrong with this picture!
The most simple solution flowed through my mind as I stood being tranquilized by an old familiar tune that came over the easy listening channel which we keep on at the Tribune-“Looking through the eyes of love.”
Through all of the unimaginable and expensive gadgetry and minding technology that keeps being competitively produced in this mercenary high-tech society-most of which isolates us from one another (whether accidentally or by well calculated design) on individual family and world family levels, we become more vulnerable to whatever and whomever would divide and subsequently weaken us. Such fete could never be accomplished “through the eyes of love”-of people and especially the Creator of all the good and bad, the lovable and especially the unlovable-who need love more than anyone.
We heard this before I know, and will most certainly be hearing it again until we actually conscientiously start at some point to look at things “through the eyes of love.”
If you (as I) find that awkward, try a different approach. Let’s work on removing the “I” that we might broaden the channel through which God’s love flows. It’s so much purer, stronger and indiscriminate. We will feel the slightest difference as we begin to do so and in return will begin to serve as an instrument through which pure love may flow to others. The more inanimate the instrument, the purer the love that flows through and the more serviceable one becomes when “looking through the eyes of love.” For “In the world of existence there is no greater force than the magnet of love.”
