Ghosting God, Ghosting Self
Day 10
The hubris of people never ceases to amaze me, Mondami’s telling King Charles to return a diamond to India is NONE OF HIS BUSINESS! Yet, once again, the hubris of the progressives, the hubris of Americans, the hubris of newly minted “new power players” is on full display. Of course, what can one expect when the hubris of Trump, Hegseth, Vance, Johnson, Lutnick, et al is on full display as well. The tragedy is that these mendacious, bigoted people keep pulling the wool over the eyes of enough of we the people to get elected, steal all they can, lie as much as possible, and ruin democratic institutions and democracy for years to come!
The hubris of John Roberts and his band of merry thugs on the Court-Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas to say the Voting Rights Act did it’s job so well it isn’t needed anymore?! While Trump is attacking free and fair elections, while ICE is threatening to be at Polling Places, while the South is once again gerrymandering so Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, will have no choice but to vote for ‘a good christian nationalist white man’? WHAT THE FUCK!
We have in Abraham a man who is conflicted and fearful-for all of his faithfulness, fear still plays a big role in his life. He is afraid of the famine so he goes down to Egypt and asks his wife to say she is his sister so the Egyptians won’t kill him to get her. While the Pharaoh never fucks here, supposedly, he realizes Abraham’s trickery and rewards him because he is “blessed by God”. Like our ‘good christian nationalists’, Abraham uses his blessing to benefit himself, to amass more wealth and feed his greed. This is the side of Abraham that the Rabbis fail to speak about, this is the side of our Self we don’t want to see nor deal with - just like Abraham didn’t the Rabbis don’t.
In contrast, King Charles was demur, firm, moral, and brought a spiritual renewal into his words and deeds on his visit here. He is a man of deep faith and a friend to people of all faiths-something that is sorely lacking here in America. We have so many examples of courageous behaviors in the face of tyranny, in the face of authoritarianism, and it is WAY PAST TIME for We the People to stand up to the lies and bullshit being spewed right now, to STAND THE FUCK UP to Hegseth, Trump, Vance, Johnson, Thune, Lutnick and the Trump family and friends who are making BILLIONS from the war with Iran, from the various tariffs, from the oil of Venezuela, from the “prediction markets” which they rig on a daily basis.
Living in fear is Ghosting God, having fear is being authentic. Buying into the lies of Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Sam Alito and denying full representation to minorities is Ghosting God, supporting Elena Kagan and her dissent is being authentically true to God’s will. Acting with the hubris of “chosenness” because one is white is Ghosting God, knowing that “being the chosen people” is an obligation to do the next right thing, care for the widow, the orphan, the poor and the needy, love the stranger, proclaim freedom throughout the land and to ALL its inhabitants therein is being authentic to our soul, our spiritual nature, our knowing and our connection to something greater than ourselves!
It is hard to not Ghost God at times, make no mistake about it. Abraham did with his con job on the Pharaoh, Isaac did when he bought the bullshit that Jacob was Esau, Jacob did a lot in his life, all of the Biblical characters did at one time or another. The reason they can be role models for all of us is: they came back to God, they returned to being authentic, kind, decent, moral, truthful, and loving. This is true of all the spiritual and moral leaders throughout the millennia. This is what King Charles was pointing us to in his remarks to Congress and beyond. The shared spiritual knowing that Abraham’s discovery and promotion of One God, not idols, is enough for us to find the common ground to discuss differences, to find solutions to problems that have baffled human beings forever, to end the need for war, to beat our swords into plowshares instead of making our plowshares into swords, to “learn war no more” instead of flexing the destructive nature of war as a badge of courage and honor. I know the difficulty of not ghosting oneself, not ghosting God as I have been guilty of both and each day, I get one grain of sand farther away from the behaviors that lead me to do this.
ACTION STEPS:
Make a journal of your hubris actions each day for a week
In the same journal, write down the actions where you did not ghost God nor your Self
How are you using your blessings in self-serving ways and how are you using them as gifts to bestow upon another(s)
How are you standing up for TRUTH, LOVE, JUSTICE, KINDNESS,
GOD BLESS, STOP GHOSTING GOD, GHOSTING SELF, Rabbi Mark