Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Dear Mr. President:

I watched your address to the UN yesterday. It was brilliant, powerful and full of Truth. I am not sure about how such missives get created, but the energy which it carried came from you and  through your equipment.

It was real. It dealt with causes, the energies behind the events which are generating the chaos on the dense physical plane. Just as good can come only from good, malice and violence can come only from malice and violence is a message that needs frequent repeating.

You were teaching in that talk. You were making some very complex things clear. The simplicity and power of the simple relationships you made between the effects of hysteria and hate and the recognition of our general humanity, inclusive understanding and negotiation cut through the layers of sophistry being woven by the generators of chaos.

I found myself wishing that you could deliver this kind of message to the nation. I think it would do vastly more for getting yourself and others of like mind and heart elected than many of the "ads" being used. Surly it would be worth money to do a few of these kinds of things on general television. As you pointed out, Good can come only from Good.

I am not sure everyone will be able to make the intellectual connection between free speech and all of our comings and goings: the way we dress, how we identify ourselves, our spiritual preferences, in what we support and believe. We are what we do and what we do is speak with many tongues. But the message works on levels of comprehension that are not related that much to the intellect. The Heart will hear that message, and the heart will vote.

I was wondering if you had ever encountered the following:

 As Kingfishers Catch Fire

As king fishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is --
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

loving us

-tom

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Dear Mr. President

I have been troubled by the note of fear that I have encountered in most of the appeals for donations that I receive, and I receive two or three a day. I have informed you of this in the past. Because I expect this discouraging frequency, I often just delete the messages without opening them.  However, I opened the note which I received from the First Lady this morning because in my experience the frequency of everything that I have seen/heard her do carries the energy which reaches hearts.

Needless to say, I responded to her appeal.

Most of the messages seeking donations that are coming from your campaign lack this energy of appreciation and inclusive encouragement. I have a feeling that most of those messages are being generated by men. With a little consciousness raising, men are quite capable of using this energy. Perhaps it would be good to have a training session around the nurturing power of the kind of message that the First Lady generates and the effect that fear generates.

One other thing. I greatly appreciate and admire the courage and love which You model for us all. However, you should know that I, and many, many others, realize that in supporting you, we are really supporting us, the people, and not just of this nation, but of the one humanity.

In that light, I am counseling that we forget about the phrase, "if we win".

This thought does not direct energy toward the goal. It opens the door for the dark whisperer of doubt.

We will win because we must win. Even when we have lost a battle we have won because we have never been defeated. The Good cannot be defeated.

As a an ancient general of the Good once observed, "At the point of loss do I pour in the new possibilities. On the line of retreat I build strongholds. In the eyes of the enemy I wave the banner. I call the day of fatigue a day of repose. I recognize a manifestation of non-understanding as rubbish on the threshold. I can conceal the sacred in the folds of a working garment. A miracle means for Me only the mark of a horseshoe. Courage means for Me only the arrow in the quiver. Resoluteness for Me is only the daily bread....From the beginning, they struggled. From the beginning we conquered."

loving us

-tom