by BB Curtis

In a world of hurry and a land that is lauded as being of plenty, when do we stop, look around and say, “It’s been too long!” I think the time is now.

As I listen to the news on the radio and read about it on the internet, playing videos from news sites around the world, my mind spins faster than one of those tornadoes that hit Garland, Texas. What have we become? Where are we going? How do we return to a path of love after so many paths of hate? I do not necessarily have answers to these questions. What I have is faith enough in all of you to know that we can make things change.

There are many who spend much of their time working on viable solutions and attempting to create the love that is needed. They are online in forces that would boggle some minds. They are in homes, right now, working on supportive projects, praying, sending healing, writing plans, and blogging. They are in churches, setting up charitable projects, meeting to plan outreach programs, and praying for the betterment of our times. They are working in offices of organizations that take on the tasks of increasing awareness, creating fund-raising activities, lobbying for a brighter future, and taking direct actions like building homes for those who have none.

There are not, however, enough who will actively pursue that brighter future.

After all the centuries of hate and death, it now requires all of us to make that difference. NOW is TOO LONG!  (There’s the answer to that question first posed.)  I have harped and pleaded for more to join the ranks of the active. I have not done this for some self-serving motive. All one needs to do is turn on the TV or radio or pick up a newspaper or news magazine to realize that things in the Middle East have gone too far – again and again and again. Our country is a mess. Prejudice runs rampant. Hatred and greed are the motivators of the day – to such a degree that those who are most greedy won’t even bother to respond to the fact that the end of the Earth as we know it is near. Their selfishness and need for self-gratification overcome even the predictions of the end of life on this planet – scientifically-based predictions, you know, those things called “facts” . . . irrefutable facts. Liars and murderers run the country and most of the population sits at night, beer in hand, shaking their heads at the news commentators and asking how long it will be before the pizza comes.

Oh, we chat at work about how horrible things are. Prices are up. There aren’t enough jobs. People are living in the street and eating garbage. And those poor, poor young men who died in that bombing yesterday – wasn’t that a shame. Oh, and how their families must feel right now – YOU DON’T KNOW HOW THEIR FAMILIES FEEL RIGHT NOW UNLESS YOU ARE A MEMBER OF ONE OF THOSE FAMILIES!

There is one thing of which I would like to remind everyone: If you know that something is wrong and you do nothing to fix it, then you are equally as guilty as those who created the wrong-doing in the first place. Please don’t hem and haw and shake your heads with minimal feeling. Open your hearts until they break – like the parents, spouses, and children of those who are dying in war; those who are wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned because the color of their skin is too dark; those who cannot find work and must watch their children starve or become sick and die because they cannot take them to a doctor; the list of inequities is so long . . .

We, those who have something – you’re reading this on a computer, you have something – need to get ourselves motivated at least enough to have our voices heard. It is too long. Take some action. Show that you have love in your heart. Give of yourself. Find a cause and make a difference. Search your heart, search the internet and then do the right thing – for the greater good of all.

Be well!

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