Today was warmer, in the 50’s, but the ground was still frozen. It is cold tomorrow, warm and rainy on Saturday and cold next week. Who knows what is going to be with the weather? As we approach Earth Week the question comes up of what is happening with climate change, when time running out to avoid a major disaster. Now we face nuclear bomb threats from North Korea which gives us another reason to ignore the real disaster of the earth as another reason to be ignored.
We have betrayed mother earth and now we are paying for it. Whenever I feel betrayed, as I did today by a friend, I need to remember betrayal will take care of itself and just to move forward.
The people I call friends often betray me, consciously or not, and the people I consider the opposition sometimes treat me fairly and justly. Either way I need to move forward with honesty and with conscience. I do not have the truth and must constantly seek it. But I believe in Truth, the Way and the Light of Jesus Christ, God’s heir, and must seek to pursuit my “opinion of truth” as Gandhi would say.
Today is the anniversary of the assassination of King who was not afraid to speak truth to power. Defending the rights of garbage men in Memphis cost him his life. But it was more than this one struggle for truth. Gandhi was killed by fellow Hindus that did not feel his way of being open to all, either Muslims, was not right. Who killed King or Gandhi? We can say particular names of people but when it comes down to it, it is like who killed Jesus. It was the Romans but in some way it was all of us that reject the Way of Jesus.
Speaking truth to Power can result in an assassination of a person but there is no assassination of the truth.
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