MONTHLY THEME JULY 2007

How free are we?

As we celebrate this anniversary of our Independence, we need to remember the cost, and the feelings. During these last days of the tribulation, we can start each day with a prayer and creatively visualize a freedom of ideas and actions. We have the freedoms that others have died defending, or creating. We also have the freedoms that others are being denied, often violently.

Our Heavenly Creators desire is that we live in a state of reciprocal co-existence, as symbiotic, pleasure motivated individuals, interconnected with others to create social nodes of nurturing and happiness. In the simple words of a latter day profit " Man (species, man and woman) is that he (gender nonspecific, included he/she/they) may have joy ". Our own document proclaims, "the pursuit of happiness".
When any of us insist that we can not or should not do these things, they are serving the Worldly Destroyer, as it were. By forcing religious belief, in any form, the perpetrators are actively taking away freedom.

As a human family, we now know more about what is happening around the globe, than at any other time in our history, this taken with the fact that tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of individuals are being lied to and manipulated into believing the incoherent and hate filled ranting of "extremist Islam" in as much as it calls for murder and martyrdom, and you have an environment filled with fear.

Fear is probably the most powerful affront to freedom that there is. When we fear for our "anything", we act in a protective and defensive manner. This is in total contradiction to the open and creative behavior that we are called to experience. We are not very happy, or pleasure motivated when we see and hear of terrible acts of ignorance, and the denial of freedom to large populations on Earth.

As we enjoy our amazing gifts and opportunities this month, let us start each day with a prayer, and give thanks while asking for Freedom throughout the world, freedom that is peace loving, open minded, and happy. In Jesus Way, Amen.