What’s something you believe everyone should know.
So many of our conflicts are driven by the one thing they shouldn’t be: religion.
No matter your religion it’s there to sustain, support, and be your best friend. To draw you closer to an energy consisting of nothing but love. An energy so ancient, so wise, that much of what we humans do must make it despair.
It’s probably bored with shaking its head gently saying “they’ll learn”, as any loving parent does, standing back and waiting for the light to dawn and us to stop hurting ourselves and each other.
We simply won’t learn. The wars happening still prove that too much of humanity (but far from all – and that is the point) is as stupid as it’s possible to be. Some is the purest evil. L
Close your ears
We all need to close our ears. There are too many destructive stories going back into our collective histories, none of which are worth the death of one child. Not one. Not any child.
All the time we listen to those people who are still holding on we will have a false image of this world, and feel threatened where there is no threat.
I’ll give you one example. The English and French hate each other right? Goes back to the battle of Waterloo I think. I am of course kidding. Who knows when such a stupid idea was spoken into being, that millions of people on either side of the channel can’t stand millions of people they’ve never met?
However, I will put my hands up and tell you that there are still English people who will say that. I just walk away.
We went to France, and were treated with nothing but kindness. The ‘unfriendly’ Parisians were warm, helpful, and funny. I learned to say “I’m sorry that I can’t speak your language” before I went. To say they appreciated that would be an understatement. I love the French and France.
Without the sheer courage of the French Resistance I shudder to think…just complete gratitude and awe.
I was so proud of the youth of the UK when they were furious over Brexit, they truly are hope for the future.
If you think of it, and huge credit to all concerned, most of Europe is past the various wars and far more interested in peace and mutual cooperation. I can’t speak for anywhere else as I don’t know.
The Commonwealth is a group I respect so much though. That level of cooperation is impressive.
Three things
- Your colour, gender, religion, nationality, do not define you. Who you are does. We are one race. All children matter. All innocents matter. A life is not ours to take. Any life.
- Governments do not speak for the people, they mess about doing political speak, supporting old allies even when those allies are wrong! Never assume an entire country agrees with them. Especially if you’re Gazan, or caught up in that escalating conflict. Millions of hearts are breaking for you. We are saying no but no one is listening. Jews in the UK are marching in your support. I imagine that’s happening widely. It is in America.
- Nothing means difference. We’re a diverse family of one race. God is an English word. That’s all.
A plea
Don’t join the dialogue of hate. Don’t engage in the discourse. You could be condemning your own children and grandchildren to death, torture, or both in the future. Think of women as weapons of war. Sons as cannon fodder. Girls too nowadays.
Don’t talk hate. Don’t believe that you hate an entire other nation for things that happened in a past we can’t change.
We can only learn from it and use it as a terrible warning
Stand up, speak out, add your voice to the side of respect, inclusion, acceptance, and let the past reside in the hell in which too much of it belongs.
We can change this. We can.
With love and respect
One world
One race
One hope for the future – all of us working together.
Let’s be brave and enter the only fight worth winning.
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 