Ghosting God, Ghosting Self
Day 62
I am completely fascinated by the words, the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the 250th Birthday of it being published. That the MAGA crowd, the Republican lackeys, the Socialist Democrats, are waving the flag and planning great celebrations is RIDICULOUS! What all of these groups have in common is a complete disdain for the Holiest document in American History, they are shitting on it daily, hourly and trying to convince We the People of how patriotic they are by waving the flag, by flying it from their homes, etc when in reality, even the Supreme Court Justices can’t hide their contempt for both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution because they are putting their agenda, their politics, in the case of Clarence Thomas his need to be white, above what is their sworn oath-to protect and defend, to uphold the Constitution, not give in to a wannabe King, not allow grift and graft to happen in the hallways of our Government and they FAIL much more often than not! Just for shits and giggles, Baron Trump would have to be deported because Melania wasn’t a citizen at the time-just saying!
The founding fathers(yes I know the women were not there, yet I believe they had a little hand in telling their husbands what to do) wrote: “When a long train of abuses, usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces the same design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, their duty to throw off such government”. Can you imagine the people who wrote this watching what is happening today and asking WHERE IS CONGRESS? WHERE IS THE SUPREME COURT??! Well, it is high time, We the People respond to these questions, it is high time for We the People to look in the mirror and face “the person in the glass”, face the call of our souls, the cries of the poor, the needy, the begging of the stranger and the ruthlessness, cruelties of the rich bastards who are supporting this “government” and, as in Egypt, tell the Pharaoh to “LET MY PEOPLE GO” and take control as our ancestors, IMMIGRANTS ALL OF THEM, did some 250 years ago.
We the People seem to be deaf to the cries of our own souls, the screaming of our intuition that tells us; watch out, they are coming for ‘them’ now and they will come for you. I hear Martin Niemoller’s poem reminding us of Ben Franklin’s words: “We all hang together or we all hang separately” and I hear the similarity between ‘socialist democrats’ and ‘national socialists’ as both hate Jews, blame Jews for the evils, and they join with their polar opposite far right “christian nationalists” to promote anti-semitism and Jew-hatred as well as many other despicable hatreds they spew venom about.
The prophets keep calling us back, calling upon us to return to the commandments of God, to return to boundaries these commandments put up. They are not asking for perfection, they are asking for transparency, they are asking for fidelity to the 10 Sayings, to our spiritual history, to our soul’s knowings. Just as We the People, at least some of us, are demanding we return to both the first founding in 1776 and the second founding in 1863, 1865 at Gettysburg, at Appomattox. I am left speechless at the love of deception that so many people have, the readiness to believe the liars, believe their own lies, and blame, shame, exile good people because of their ethnicity, their religion, their seeking of the American Dream? I know something has to be done to reform our immigration policies, I also know that Stephen Miller, Tom Holman, JD Vance, Marco Rubio would have sent the St. Louis back to Europe, I know they would not have taken in the refugees from Cuba-‘little Marco’, and they would let people die in the streets, like Veterans are doing right now. The “long train of abuses, usurpations” is as great as it was in 1776 and that it is being done in America, that it is being carried out and approved by the Republican Majority in Congress and the Fascist Supreme Court is beyond the pale. There is only one solution: STAND UP and FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT-not just elect Democrats, elect serious people who will follow the law, hear God crying about their harlotry by serving Trump instead of We the People, serving their financial goals, serving the lobbyists rather than We the People. KICK THEM OUT OF OFFICE!
First, however, We the People have to surrender our desire to deceive and be deceived, stop waiting for Jesus to come back, for the Messiah to show up. Rather, We the People who are faithful to the principles found in every Spiritual discipline, who are willing to be in the solution, have to create the atmosphere for Christ to show up and be recognized, to create the space and places for the Messiah to be heard. Remember, both Christ and the Messiah may have visited for a minute and been rejected by we the people in our desire to engage in “abuses, usurpations”!
How are you rebelling against the “abuses, usurpations” of self and another(s)
God Bless, Stop Ghosting God, Ghosting Self, Rabbi Mark