…a slogan associated primarily with Jesse Jackson, is one that doesn’t seem to get any easier with time, especially as society (and people) age, formulating its base. Couple this with the ceaseless agitation and constant deliberate words and actions of those at home and abroad who stop at nothing in their persistence in “keeping hate alive!
Whether by accident or by well-calculated design, more people of goodwill are breaking under the pressures and constant instigation of rage, brutality and other societal infrastructure that tends to push one “over the proverbial edge.”
The fact that love is stronger than hate is an undeniable reality. Yet the more appropriate slogan appears to be, “All is fare in love and war,” as though placing the two on an even keel. This results only in the absence of knowledge of what “real love” is. In such insecure state the consuming flames of hate can be easily kindled and fanned still easier by the winds of prejudice (of all kinds), ignorance and fear, all based in selfishness and EGO (Edging God Out!”) One survey supported the theory of “a great decline of religion in America”–which could not be farther than the truth!
“In the beginning, God…” (Whoever or However we perceive It)–and God is LOVE!
How can any creation supersede its Creator?
We are constantly reminded that hate is among the most toxic of acids… “that does more damage to the vessel in which it is perpetually stored than to the objects on which it is occasionally poured!”
One poet has described love as the mother and all mankind as her children. Only a mother can understand such analogy. Yet in the Baha’i Holy scriptures we find: “Love Me that I may love thee! If thou loveth Me not, My Love can in no wise reach thee.”
How many mothers can relate to this from childhood up who have overtly or covertly loved someone who either never perceived it or apparently could not have cared less?
Yet another definition is: “Love is giving someone the power to destroy you and the trust that they will not!” The latter is probably the one that generates the most fear in far too many of us as such surrender could jeopardize “Keeping Hope Alive!”
Upon discovering (and subsequently memorizing) the “Hollow Reed Prayer many years ago I decided to place my priorities instead in trying to accomplish some degree of becoming “…a hollow reed from which the pith of self hath been blown that I may become a pure channel through which God’s Love may flow to others…”
The Holy Writings further stressed: “Beseech ye the Lord thy God that no earthly entanglements, no worldly affections and no ephemeral pursuits will tarnish the purity or embitter the sweetness of that “Amazing Grace” that flows through! — Investigate!”
