A Facebook Challenge

I joined Facebook several years ago at the suggestion of my daughter who proposed it as a way to keep up with my grandchildren.  In addition to keeping up with my growing family I have reconnected with scores of people with whom I lost touch over the years and for this, I am quite grateful.  I do, however, find many people are using social media as a means of public communication.  The communication is frequently very helpful, amusing, or down right funny. However, a day does not go by when I do not experience the energy of mass hysteria.  I read or hear posts exhorting about moral, political, and social problems.  Day after day, month after month.  

In the duality of our physical lives, we really only have Love or Fear.  The Fear I experience in social media has many names but it is really just Fear.  The Facebook posts I read run the gamut of complaints about our president, complaints about the Republicans, complaints over health care, complaints about illegal immigrants, and now complaints about disease.  Much energy is expended complaining, blaming, and accusing.  To what end?  Aside from venting the energy of fear, is anything really changed?

The energy of the world we live in today is very challenging to those living in Fear.  But it is not just happening now.  Historically, we have never existed apart from challenging times, which lead to fear, to war, to hunger, and even to near extinction of the world as it was known.  Remember world history?  To those who turn to their bibles, maybe it is time to revisit the passages when God's wrath created upheaval in the world.  If we really take a look, we will find comparable instances and similarities to our current situation.  The only difference is that we are experiencing the illusion of upheaval instead of our ancestors.  

I believe it is time for all to really go inward.  Take a look at our religious or spiritual beliefs.  Measure our beliefs about Jesus, Buddha, God, or whichever Divine Being with which we resonate against how we are reacting to current events.  In Spirit, the only energy that exists is Loving.  If the actions we take come from a place of Fear then we are not serving the greater good.  If we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem.  I challenge any and all who feel they must do something, please do something that promotes Love and Loving!  Blessed Be!!!

Namaste.