As with the tree past events, in our lives, affect our shape. Unlike the tree our shape is not as easily seen. Like the tree I cannot know or understand exactly what transpired to shape you. Even if you can fully explain these past events and your response to them, my different shape will influence my new shape.
It took me six years to understand part of the life of this tree.
Watching the healing of of the bleeding woman on "The Chosen" I had an "Aha!" moment.
I realized that the woman's greatest hurt was that she was alone! Her healing was not the curing of her affliction but when Jesus told her that she was not alone, "I am with you!"!
She was isolated due to her affliction. She was was not "without blemish". Indeed when I judge an other we arI am turning away from them, isolating them. In turn I am also isolating myself.
For as I continue to judge I become more and more alone sharing the fate I wish upon others.
Perfect Harmony
chilling bone deep
All think same
no new stress
no new blocks
no new material
death of growth
I grieve for the victims of our culture of destruction. The high school graduate shot as collateral damage at their graduation party. The toddler killed in their crib by a drive by shooting. School children, teachers, and others targeted for death.
The loved ones left behind can no longer anticipate or receive hugs or snuggles or give them.
I also grieve for the shooters. Life has so overwhelmed them that they have given up. Sometimes for a moment when a gun is used as a primal scream. Sometimes planned to project pain in a primal scream.
They have traded the comfort of future hugs and snuggles for the embrace of destruction.
one elephant
nine blind
ten truths
nine fight!
or
nine share!
nine compromise
nine elephants
approach one
