LOVE PREVAILS AND ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER

​​I have let far too much time pass since last putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).  (I have been quite busy doing my part for social justice and equity.) Today’s circumstances lend themselves to the many, many thoughts and potential messages looming in my heart and mind.
 
“Love thy neighbor ...”
 
“I am my brother’s keeper ...”
 
“Do no harm ...”
 
There are a number of verses, oaths and pronouncements we easily and readily proclaim, study, ramble off and engrave on everything we can. There is no shortage of words of honor and love. Aligning these words with action, however, is an altogether different matter.
 
“Actions speak louder than words.”
 
The bold bullying and violent acts against the African American, Mexican, Muslim and other populations certainly do not represent love. These and other hateful doings toward other people are the ongoing lessons of bullying that teach our children to bully anyone they do not like. These teachings are, in fact, lessons of hatred.
 
Still, love prevails.

​Stripping millions of people’s means to live a quality life in order to suppress them, while further enriching one’s own lifestyle certainly contradicts the underlying sentiment of being our brother’s keeper.
 
Still, love prevails.
 
Denial of accessible medical attention, whether proactive and preventive care or responsive care, to millions and millions of human beings is nothing less than an institutionalized death penalty imposed absent the commission of a crime. Do no harm? Ensuring human beings cannot afford medical care is doing the ultimate harm. It is, quite simply, killing people.
 
Still, love prevails.
 
Yes. Love does still prevail. The net that hatred has cast far and wide, to include all who do not fit into the 1% population of the privileged, ironically, is responsible for something incredibly beautiful.
 
A deliberate and extensive assassination upon “We the People” has targeted people of color, people unable to afford necessary medical care and, frankly, education, safety and other aspects of wellbeing of millions and millions of people.
 
There’s been so much segregation, alienation and dismissive behavior toward “other” groups and populations. Now, we have this common interest that has brought all together for the common good. Finally!
 
The interests and concerns of the summarily ignored and dismissed are now given some attention. More than some attention. Various outcast populations of society have joined forces to protect the rights of all.
 
Love still prevails.
 
The good – the beauty – that arose out of something so horrid as the institutionalized discriminatory assault on people is the one thing that should have been happening all along. The discriminated are coming together to stand up for themselves and their other discriminated brothers and sisters.
 
“We the People ...”
 
One of my favorite proclamations ... and truths ...
 
“All things work together for good ...”