FIRESIDE CHAT
3. Attentive to World Care
The world project is well underway and those of us who live now to speak of it witness yet another of humanities episodic movements toward contraction and isolation, vengeance, violence and fear mongering between people groups, oddly among those who would refer to themselves as more civilized or "blessed."
The world's wealth and power not only remains disproportionately located but highly consolidated among leaders who benefit directly from oligarchic national control and who also vivify the same opportunistic pattern among others like themselves, thus putting the globe at risk of being ruled by the wealthiest few for their own benefit and with an eye toward collaborating to secure such control with the promise of longevity.
It is incumbent upon us to stay alert, therefore, and to remain vigilant in our discourse; that which happens on social media, among the faculties and students of our universities, the scholars and pastors, the artists and poets. It's an important time to remember the power of speech, the shaping and mis-shaping capacity of language. It's an important time to remember the power of paying attention to one another carefully by listening to our family members from all around the world with great care, focus and a willingness to see ourselves through their own faces of concern and intention.
Humanity is not a given. Humanity is the fragile blossom of a well tended, living and fragile planet filled with vulnerable persons who need each other. It shows up while we are humane, when we enact the peace and empathy and harmony we long for.
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