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