Encourage - EMPOWER - ENGAGE

FIRST AND FOREMOST, ALL HONOR AND GLORY GO TO GOD ALMIGHTY.  MAY WE BE FORGIVEN OF OUR MANY SINS!  I PROCLAIM LORD JESUS CHRIST AS MY SAVIOR!!!

 We are a people, a people of all faiths, no faiths, all experiences, and all lives.  Early tribal

people of great masses looked after, cared for, nurtured, encouraged each other; both known

and unknown.  It was a simpler time when all we had was each other; we needed each other.

During that time whether you knew your next door neighbor or not..…or the human many

many paths away perhaps in another tribal unit, you still cared for each other and supported

each other. You looked after each others kids, lived together, and played together.  It’s this

thing about community that is so strong, one unified unit in strength.

I ask where have those days vanished to; what has time and modernization done to us?  Let me

propose to you an end of times.  For sake of discussion, a massive solar flare (this isn’t

imagination, it happened in the 1850s which disrupted telegraph lines).  Imagine what such an

event would do to our primitive electrical grid system, your computerized car, the gas pumps,

the banking system…no electricity for days, months...years?   Forget solar flare, what about a

terrorist attack on our electrical grid system?

So what does that leave us with ….besides each other?  AND how do we have each other if we

don’t even have each other to begin with, I ask?  Where is the tribal community we once had as

a people that is nearly non-existent today?  What will we do?  Who will we turn to? 

Government? I don’t think so; they have already made secure plans for themselves. 

Communication would be gone, essentially wiped out. Where do we the common peoples turn

to?  Sheesh, we don’t even have each other.

In my humble opinion, we need each other more than we have ever needed anything.  Petty

(really petty) differences have separated us into self righteous, bigoted, self loathing beings that

have no respect for one another let alone ourselves.  I yearn for a day when we all, as a people,

love one another no matter where you come from, your beliefs, your feelings, your problems,

your looks, your preferences, your differences.  It’s these very differences that, as a unit, can

make us a strong force to be reckoned with.  Instead many have chosen a path of separation

based on petty differences. The very humans speaking unity are those that are tearing one

another apart.  I would urge all humans to reach out to someone you don’t know and shake

their hand and let them know you come in peace.  But, brothers and sisters,  this cannot be

done on a cookie cutter method; this has to be done in a mixed bag fashion; to reach out to

someone who is different than you; someone from another tribe.   You see for far too long we

have separated ourselves from one another based on difference. Hate does not have to exist to

tear down community. Merely disengaging from all peoples has a negative effect on

community. We should all engage with others whether they walk different, talk different,

appear different, or they are just different.  I would propose to stop ignoring because “they”

are different. Run with someone different, engage your life with someone different…it is only

thru this bond that the bond of community can be built.  Come in peace with one another just

as our early settlers and tribal peoples did, it’s the number one commandment.  Remember the

diminish of community feeds the ultimate end of humanity.