My Mom used to say: If you don't have anything nice to say,
Don't say anything at all.
Well, Mom.
Your positivity shined through
The murk of my troubled heart all those years.
I don't remember you saying anything negative.
But when I read this today:
"World Central Kitchen halts operations in Gaza after strike kills staff"I imagined you turning your pained eyes to me
As if to say, "Say something".
Truth is, I stopped following Mom's "Pollyanna" advice decades ago
But I needed her to believe in her own teaching.
See what I'm saying?
I needed her to stay positive.
And that she did.
For all the years of my growing up
She held space for my beleaguered heart.
But if this is truly a world where
Feeding people is a crime
Then I know a lot of criminals
Who will not mend their ways.
And my mother was the worst offender.
Maybe even a terrorist.
If she says, "Say something"
I'll be damned if I don't.
And what I'm going to say is,
Maybe we're all damned if we don't!
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.bbc.com/news/world-68710515
The news of the Israeli military murder of some of the staff of the World Central KItchen really felt like a punch below the belt. Sacred lines are always crossed in war. That is to be expected; it's the nature of the beast. But the cold blooded murder of people who are there to feed a starving population, even though also not new, was like the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I am having my own back problems these days and am feeling vulnerable, so this story caught me off guard. I couldn't deflect it, but thought about my mother, one of the most positive people I have ever known. I could picture her, in the spirit realm, looking perplexed. Here is what I think is going on: This story clobbered me, in the second and third chakra, below my heart, the energetic center where I am connected to my birth, my origin, my mother. All those years my Mother fed me, she never asked for anything in return except to grow and thrive. So I can really picture her being upset by this cold-blooded murder. Israel must be held accountable. I can't resist saying that if feeding people is a crime then my mother would have been a terrorist, because she fed us selflessly until the day we could feed ourselves. Feeding people is sacred work. If you murder someone who is feeding starving people I am quite sure that you will pay, karmically, for that is a crime of crimes. I know this because I register it in my 2nd and 3rd chakras and chakras do not lie.
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