Ghosting God, Ghosting Self
Day 2
“We the People in order to form a more perfect union establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” is not only the beginning of the U.S. Constitution, it is the theme of the entire Bible. The “more perfect union” is the one we are forming with God, with higher consciousness, with our intuitive mind, with our inner life. When we the people abandon this “more perfect union” for our selfish, self-centered, self-deceptions we the people suffer. And it is, of course, not only the individual, it is the people around them and depending on one’s position, it could be an entire country, world-as we are witnessing right now.
My particular target this morning is not just Donald Trump and his minions, it is the clergy that buy the bullshit, that placate people in power for their own needs. There is a Bible Reading Marathon happening where Trump is reading from II Chronicles 7:14 “If my people who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.” CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?? TALK ABOUT GHOSTING GOD, GHOSTING SELF! These ‘fine christian fellows’ are using a verse from the Bible to intuit the divinity of the United States, they are using a known idolator to deliver the message and NONE OF THEM are the least bit interested in:
“humble themselves” they would rather brag about themselves, their ‘big beautiful bill that has cost Americans a fortune while perserving the money for the richest 1%! Trump goes on and on about “my ballroom”, ignoring the disastor happening in the Middle East, ignoring that Russia and China are helping Iran and watching the rot and decay of this braggard tear down 85 years of alliance building, strengthening of democracy across the globe. WTF- PEOPLE??!!
“pray”, in Hebrew is a reflexive verb, it means to look at oneself from the inside out, to judge one’s actions and do the necessary repairs for our errors, relearn what the next right thnk to do is and make the amends we need to in order to restore the dignity and balance of another human being. It is not a PETITIONARY experience, it is a reflexive one-Pete Hegseth!
“turn from their evil ways” doesn’t seem to be a major concern for Trump, for his ‘spiritual advisors’, for his ‘good church going, synagogue going’ cult followers. Instead, as we see with his sons, with Jared Kushner, using the pretext of negotiating a ceasefire with Iran to meet with Arab leaders and get money for their business’ is more important that “the common defense”! “Domestic tranquility, general welfare, blessings of liberty” are to be reserved for themselves, their thugs, and fuck the rest of us, who cares if Americans are dying in this Iranian War Trump started, certainly not Trump, not Kushner, not Vance-they are more concerned with teaching the Pope Christian Theology!! REALLY PEOPLE?!
While it is easy and convenient to blame the assholes in charge, it is more correct to hold the assholes who elected these self-centered, egotistical, deceptive, wannabe Mafia Dons to office, giving them the power to promote their lying, cheating ways for their benefit and not to “establish justice”. It is we the people who, when God calls have been hiding. It is we the people who reject “a more perfect union” that the U.S. Constitution calls for and the Bible demands. From the beginning, Adam hides once his eyes are opened, he uses “the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil” to do more evil, to hide, to deceive and we the people have never learned the lesson to BE TRANSPARENT, to BE AUTHENTIC and there is no authentically evil human being. Of course We the People commit evil acts and We are created “in the image of God” with “the spirit of God” breathed into us; ergo-We the People cannot be born evil, the evilness we the people purpetrate is “learned from our youth” and We the People do not have to learn these lessons and/or can do T’Shuvah and unlearn them! This is the challenge We the People are being given: AYECHA, WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?
ACTION STEPS:
Learn from your spiritual counselor/guide what truth is and wrestle with your spiritual friend to find the truth in your daily actions
At every meal, ask your SELF, how am I answering God’s call of Ayecha; when am I saying Hineni-here I am and when am I, like Adam, hiding?
Each evening, write down the ways I participated in forming “a more perfect union” with God, with myself, with my community
Each night write down the ways I participated in selfish, self-centered ways of deception, greed, graft, and what I am going to do to repair and change.
GOD BLESS and STOP GHOSTING GOD and SELF, Rabbi Mark