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Welcome 2012 - Sharing The Same World  
I wrote this a few years ago but I think it makes a nice welcome message for our entrance into 2012.
We live in a beautiful world. There are trees, mountains, rivers, oceans, flowers, fields and streams. We have created towns and cities and states and countries for our living space. We built houses, cultivated gardens and made stores and shopping centers to buy the things we need. We have cars, boats, airplanes, trains and busses to get where we want to go. We have hospitals for the sick, schools for learning and preparing for vocations and churches to develop our spiritual side. We created clubs and special interest groups for sharing mutual activities. Sadly, we also created a judicial and crimminal incarceration and punishment system for those who won't share with others but infringe on others rights and safety. Even more sadly, we developed arms and weapons for protection from other countries who invade us to take away our freedom or resources, as well as to invade and take over others who have resources we want. This is the world community we are born into. At some point in our lives, hopefully we will contemplate our position in this world community. It usually won't happen until we learn to take the focus of our attention off ourselves and look at individuals out there all over the world as the same as we are. We all live, breathe, eat, sleep and exercise. We all have talents, abilities and gifts to develop and share, work to accomplish and earn money from, and families, neighbors and friends to relate with. We all cry, laugh, sing and even curse at times. Each of us shares an equal quantity of emotions, feelings and thoughts as well as dreams, imaginations and visions. We all have the same needs for love, attention, acceptance and verification as to who and what we are. We all want to know that others see us, hear us and aknowledge us and we are good. We are a good creation and we have a right to be respected for that, mistakes and all. Have you noticed that all of the above qualities I mentioned are in everyone? Whether we are male or female, whatever color we are, it doesn't matter what religion we are or where we work, how much money we have, how much education we acquired or what family we were born into. It doesn't matter if we are sitting in jail or if we are fixing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for kindergartners. It doen't matter if we are in a hospital with cancer or parachuting from an airplane just for fun, no matter if we have committed the worst crime against another or did the nicest little gesture for a friend, we all have the same attributes and needs as a human being. We hurt, we feel pain, we feel joy and we need love. Everyone does. But you know, you can't tell sometimes just by looking at people what they are feeling. Everybody has their masks in place to hide all the sensitive stuff inside. Somewhere along the line we all got the notion that we have to let other people think we are just fine. We have it all under control. We want everyone to think we are: "just a nice, ordinary person who is basically friendly, smart enough to get by, work hard enough, have enough money, get along fairly fine with spouse and children. Kids are okay, we're as normal as everyone else. Maybe not spectacular like some, we don't save people out of burning buildings or feed hungry orphans but we're not in jail or on drugs. What happens when a person that everyone see's as normal as everyone else, suddenly looses it and commits suicide or does some other tragic, senseless thing? Everyone shakes their heads and can't understand how such a thing could have happened. A human being is God's most amazing creation. We all are multi-faceted and complex in ways we haven't come close to understanding. We have intelligence, creativity, intuition, sacredness and an expansive capacity to love and to receive love. These are universal potentials, inherent in the very depth of everyone's being. Every one of us has this potential. Jan 1, 2012 update for this article Now our world is changing into something new and wonderful. Soon a lot of the things we used to depend on in our society for our sustanence, health, learning, transportation and energy needs won't be necessary. An exciting time is ahead, when all of the people in the world will be free and enjoying life as God intended it to be.
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