Dear Friends,
If your life is like mine, you are busy with activities, events, meetings and trying to make a difference in the world. Yesterday, I heard a fabulous speaker, Bishop Cornelius Bowser speak about the Implicit Bias in our country’s history and laws of the land. Unfortunately we are still a country dealing with bias and racism. We hear it from leaders in our government, in the news, in the killings of black men and in the unjust rulings in the courtrooms. Biship Bowser said a person of color will get a longer sentence for the same crime than a white person. We hear how some of our police officers tend to pull the trigger in the black neighborhoods, more than in white neighborhoods. People of color are pulled over in their cars on a regular basis. We hear White Supremists holding rallys and marching. Bishop Cornelius told a story of a Mayor telling his Police Commissioner to stop all the rampant crimes in the black neighborhoods. The PC took the police gang unit out of the black neighborhoods and put them in the white neighborhoods. He took the police patrolling the white neighborhoods and assigned them to the black neighborhoods. CRIME DROPPED almost instantly.
We know the Spiriutal Principle, when we LOOK for something, it generally appears in our world. When we see good, we get good, when we see bad we get bad. Simplistic? Yes. True? Yes.
There is so much need in our society, helping the homeless, the immigrants, the refugees, the people of color, it overwhelms me. I want to cry because there is so much fear and hatred happening in our country. I am paralyzed at times and feel I cannot do anything. I felt this way yesterday after the Bishop’s talk and all the people who stood up advertising their particular justice events. I was not the only one feeling this way. I talked with a friend who also went to this event. She said the negative energy is over powering sometimes where she cannot do anything.
I realized, I need to bring my saddened heart and overwhelmed mind out of the abyss.If you are at all feeling helpless, first write down all the good things you have done and are doing to help someone. Then choose ONE thing to do that will lift a person’s spirit and consciousness. Simple things will have a ripple affect and you will never know what the outcomes will be.
Take clothes to Good Will or the Salvation Army.
Keep some food in the car and give it to a homeless person on the street.
Take food to a food pantry.
Find an organization that speaks to your heart and get involved.
Most of all find a sacred place for your personal stillness and quietude.
Replenish yourself with the LOVE and LIGHT of the Divine, then go out
into the world and help others.

Replenished and Serving,
Abigail