What is your wish for this month?
Posted on Dec 1st, 2008
by
Gemstar
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for December 01, 2008:
My grown-up Christmas wish for December for the world is that those who have set this horrendous world-wide monetary crisis in action will have a huge Epiphany, get their crap together, and share their huge wealth, instead of hoarding it for God-only-knows-what-reason (and maybe God even has a problem figuring them out!)
If the attempt was to enslave the common man, I think they have been drinking way too much fine wine and plugging their ears with caviar for way too long to really understand that every man, woman and child has a spark of the divine in them (even these idiots have it, for crying out loud!) and WILL NOT submit to being slaves.
Certainly, the sanity of people in general can be called into question at times. The "Black Friday" tramplings and shootings really call into question what people really believe in, even at this time of year when supposedly many are celebrating religious or spiritual festivities, whether it is Channukah, Christmas, Qwansa, Yule - whatever!!! Is getting to the check-out counter with that made-in-China doll, or that made-in-Taiwan blouse or shirt more important than taking a little extra care to make sure you don't mame or kill someone else in the process??? This is insanity!!!
So can we expect that our leaders are going to act any better? I do applaude my neighbours to the south (mostly) of Canada for at least electing someone who might make a difference in the long run, but he is really going to be battling uphill for at least a couple of years - the Bushite's made dang sure of that. Unfortunately, whenever the US economy takes a dump, Canadians end up with the crappy after-farts (pass the Air-wick pallleeeeezzzzze!). I think, as world citizens we have a divine duty to lead by example, and demand, then, that they live up to a much higher standard.
So here's what we all need to do: When you're out shopping for your gifts, don't push, don't shove, don't swear at the poor clerk who's trying to please you, and don't think you have to be the first on the block to give (or get) anything. Do's - be polite, be generous, smile, make time for your family (they'll probably appreciate that more than a thousand dollars worth of gifts), and do something nice for a stranger as often as possible - preferably at least once a day! More do's - keep positive, keep your attention planted on your goals, keep the company of those who are supportive of you and your dreams, and keep a daily gratitude list of at least five items. Put at least half of what you'd spend daily on coffee /tea /lattes /beer /wine into a jar or envelope, and give it to your local food-bank at the end of the month - and do it every month for at least the next year. Make it a habit to think of others FIRST!!!!
Those are the things, done well, done often and done by many, that are going to help change the group-consciousness dynamic of the world this coming year. If we change that, then those selfish money-groping monsters who pushed us into this financial crisis will be forced to change - they are really at the bottom of the heap spiritually, so any real spiritual effort put forth, by spiritual law, is irresistible to them.
That's it! That's my wish! In the words of Jean Luc Picard "Make It So!!!"
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Hey Sheila,
You are on a roll! I just loved reading this piece and I think you are really onto something! ;>) Time for a change, a shift from what can I get to “what can I give”.
Even to giving the right of way - in life.
My driving teacher pounded this slogan into the class's head:
“THE RIGHT OF WAY IS GIVEN…..NOT TAKEN”,followed up with this question,
“So what if you had the right of way, and you end up dead?”
Thanks so much for your comments, Mimi!
To elaborate on what your driving teacher was teaching, applied here: The money mongers may have the “right” to make money (although some of the tactics used in lending today, ie credit card interest rates, are more tantamount to “highway robbery”) but that right shouldn't supercede the well-being of a nation,, or in this instance, the well-being of a planet, as a whole.
This includes the amount of pollution their companies throw up into the air, the poisoning of our food by chemicals, and the heavy-handed attitude of the pharma-mafia, in particular, where we want to at least try to get something into our systems to make up for all of the aboves gross negligence.
People wouldn't need insurance companies to pay out to relatives at the end of life if they were provided with a decent living wage and reasonably costed goods, so that they could actually save for that eventuality. Both are possible if the companies producing goods didn't think they had to have “profits” in the billions to pay out to fat, bullying executives. Does it really make sense to contribute to an insurance fund, if, in the end it is only going to be distributed to the big cheeses at the top of the food chain? Don't think so! I used to sell insurance (something I'm not too proud of now) and I've got a fairly good handle on the workings of these companies, so I do know what I'm talking about. Citi-Bank, the latest and biggest of the bail-out babies, was pretty much the originator of the “no downpayment mortgage” in the US - it was called the “Smart” mortgage (they were thwarted from using the product very long in Canada, thank God!), paid their Executives HUGE money and splashed it around at yearly 'conventions” to rally the troops - and you were made to feel like dirt if you didn't attend, even if you were a new recruit - should NEVER have been given a bail-out - their top people should be in jail!
The lesson also applies to the common “Joe” or “Jane” who pushes and shoves their way through life. I found this annoying as a child, having to line up for recess (coming and going into the classroom) and for any other reason they made us line up - there were always the bullies who just had to be at the head of the line! Apparently very few people in life got the message (particularly in the Christian doctine) that “The first shall be last and the last shall be first”. Obviously those celebrating Christmas - which make up the majority of the people out there pushing their way through Walmart doors - haven't bothered to pay too much attention to the words of the object of their worship.
Yeah - I'm on a roll - could rant for hours on this! ~:-)~
Blessings,
Gem
Amen
and may it be so.
and it is so.
Thanks Sheila.
Samme