Ghosting God, Ghosting Self
Day 3
Iran, Israel, Tariffs, Affordability, Gasoline Prices, College debt, Lying, are not new issues for America nor the world. Throughout history, there have been countries who want to conquer another country, who want to take the fruits of another’s work and make it their own. Since the beginning we have had floods of nature, floods of cruelty, floods of entitlement, floods of violence, floods of kindness, floods of love, floods of betrayals, floods of faithfulness. Yet, We the People refuse to learn from our ancestors, we have adopted some idiotic societal norm of “having to learn it myself” because at our core, we the people have not accepted that truth is to trusted, not denied!
When Adam and Eve learned to ‘see’ after eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, their innocence died and their deceptions began. Rather than learn from the negative consequences of their actions, we the people have continued to hide, continued to disobey when disobediance goes against our best interests, and continue to blame another for our woes, ‘she made me do it, the devil made me do it’! Isn’t it WAY PAST TIME to learn the lesson of the Garden of Eden? Isn’t it WAY PAST TIME to answer “Hineni”(here I am) to the call from God, from a stranger, from a friend? According to some, Jared, Donny, JD, Pete the drunk, Todd, Marco, et al NO! The despot, the authoritarian is banking (literally and figuratively) on we the people not learning from our history, not disobeying their dictates, not coming out of hiding. They do this with good reason because we the people, historically, have given the dictator a wide berth before finally rebelling-since the days of being in Egypt till today!
We the People are created in the Image of God, we have infinite dignity and value, we are equal in dignity and value to every human being, we all have unique gifts and talents that no one else can replicate-hence we are all needed for the world to function correctly. At issue today is the same issue that was prevailing in the prophet’s time: CORRUPTION in the Name of God, War for the sake of God, Economic Injustice, Legal Injustice, the pursuit of pleasure, power, money rather than the pursuit of truth, justice, mercy, etc. We the People failed to hear and change then and we the people are failing ONCE AGAIN- WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE!?!?!??! The spiritual and moral health of a human being and a nation is to be measured by the treatment of the “waterbearer”, the person who is the ‘lowest’ on the economic scale. Since the beginning of this experiment called the United States, we the people have failed to protect the most vulnerable, we have failed to “love the stranger”, we have failed to care for the needy, the poor, the sick, all while proclaiming We are a God Fearing People! The parallels to Ancient Israel, to Ancient Judea are astounding and the current crop of Clergy-Jewish, Christian, Muslim- don’t seem to be able to call this bullshit out! Instead, the people who claim to have been called to serve God, human beings, are more interested in serving the Rich, the Powerful, the LIE!
Bibi is as big a liar as the Pharaoh in Egypt! Trump is as interested in violence as we the people who were destroyed in the flood! Putin is as interrested in absolute power and wealth as King Solomon! We the People are being called to STAND UP and FIGHT FOR WHAT IS TRUE AND RIGHT. We the People are inheritors of the spiritual essence of the prophets, their words, their power, their strength, their knowing that their destiny is to serve! We the People have within us the history of our ancestors standing up to Hitler and the Nazis, think about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that is now Yom HaShoah. We the People have the knowing that England was defeated by the 13 Colonies against all odds. It is WAY PAST TIME for We the People to use our inherited knowing, our inherited strength, our inherited spiritual power to say NO to the Lies, NO to the Cruelty, NO to the mistreatment of the poor, the stranger, the needy, NO to the graft and thievery of ‘der Fuhrers’, NO to the part of us that tells us to shush, don’t make waves. It is WAY PAST TIME for We the People to say YES to the call of Ayecha, YES to the call to Pursue Justice, Righteousness, YES to the call to Love our Neighbor, YES to the call to BE HOLY, YES to the Truth, YES to GOD! Anything else is Ghosting God and Ghosting our Self
ACTION STEPS:
Read/Re-read the Bible, the words of Jesus and find the wisdom you are lacking
Write down a Plan of Action to fulfill the divine needs expressed in the above wisdom books
At every meal go over the Plan of Action, making sure you are on course and making whatever course corrections needed
Honor the wisdom that you have inherited, the courage of our ancestors who took great risks so we, their descendants, could live free
GOD BLESS and STOP GHOSTING GOD AND SELF, Rabbi Mark