I am getting tired


I am tired. Getting worn out, really. Slick as a set of retread tires.

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it - it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time. Can you understand?

Today is National Holocaust Day. One single day, when we remember not just our Jewish Brothers that suffered ethnic cleansing and eradication. The Holocaust touched Soviets, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gays, and Freemasons, etc., according to the Holocaust Museum.  Basicly if you did not fit the “mold,” you were an outsider.

I am not saying this to take away from our Jewish Brothers who suffered greatly at the hands of a madman. But the root cause is hatred and fear.

Fear and hatred still exist, sadly. Just today, I made a comment on a post and someone “jumped my case.” I went and looked at his Facebook profile and images. I saw an image of a “madman” from the 1930s with the initials AH and the words “Mein Ni….”

It is very tiring and, in time, will wear you down when you know the truth. When you see the “Light,” and you are still surrounded by darkness.  

There is a lot of Bullshit going on politically. Yes, I said Bullshit. I try to watch my language here and subdue my passions. But just like the times of the 1930s, this is not political. It's about right and wrong. It is about humanity. It is about the Plumb, Level, and Square.

I say I do not care about the darkness that surrounds us. That is not entirely true… but what is? I love and see the value in you because YOU ARE the work of the Master Craftsman.

I will spend my last life's breath honoring and giving value not only to our differences but also to the things we have in common. Because we are all Children of the Most High.

NEVER AGAIN….NOT ON MY WATCH.

I love you and may we govern ourselves accordingly


 

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