By Miles Patrick Yohnke
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Racism: The Indigenous. The Blacks. The Jews. The Gays. Whom do you hate? When one hates their fellow human, they hate themselves. We are all one people. We are all God's people. We must love one another. We must love ourselves.
Defensiveness is a pandemic.
We were social distancing long before Covid-19.
In fact, we've likely been social distancing since the beginning of time.
We are defensive towards others. It's apparent in our conversations and lack of conversation. Often times, we'll get our backs up towards the person or people we are with. We become defensive towards them to somehow protect ourselves from our past hurt. This robs us of our spirit and of being in the moment, a beautiful moment with another life, another person of God. We must release our hurt to be present and to mindfully seize the moment we are in now.
Peace. Peace be with you.
We say it, but do we think about what we're saying in that context?
Happy Birthday. Happy New Year.
Do we actually give thought to what we're expressing? And yet, happy is all any of us wants to be.
Each and every one of us just wants to be happy.
Therefore, it is essential for us to undo our defensiveness towards each other. To look within and understand why it is there. To stop being defensive towards others for our own peace. If we can achieve this, World Peace will prevail.
Peace be with you.
