REAL REALITY | THE CONVERSATION

How is everybody doing in this agony?

This war is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE thing. No war should be entered without every person in a country agreeing. That would make it so that wars would only be because they had to be. Anything else is an elective war. I am overwhelmed by the pain, which will stretch far into the future, that our government has chosen to inflict. So many people are caught in hell. Civilian populations that are in the battle zone are getting searing impressions that never will go away, with perhaps disease and famine to follow — and well beyond the time in history where our psyches accept killing, post traumatic stress disorder will haunt another swath of humanity. And for us, watching the unwatchable, it is deep pain and shame for being party to it all. How can anyone feel really good? We all are actors in this HORRIBLE HORRIBLE drama.

From: Susan Steffes [ssteffes@cal-lobby.com]

I just wanted to wish you peace in your heart because I hear your pain. I believe that for peace to manifest we have to experience it in our own hearts and know it for the world. I find myself getting very angry and upset when I focus on what is true in this moment, and I have to step back for “current events” to focus on the Truth. I totally agree with what you wrote today. We may not feel good, but we should work that much harder at feeling peace.

From Suzanne to Susie:

There is something about the rawness that impels a creativity to help resolve things, that comfort doesn't seems to give rise to. These times feel so moment by moment dangerous, that I don't want to dull my creative edge for whatever it might evoke in me, so I don't set peace in my heart as an objective. For now, compassion is my heartful outlet. Make sense?