Sabbath Messages > Sabbath Message: March 26, 2005
Good Sabbath
March 26, 2005
How beautifully cold and sunny this morning's walk was. The sun greeted the new buds and the beginning of seasonal colorations as God indulged our senses with diversity of expectations and surprises. As Mother Nature illustrates what expected change can be, human nature continues to descend into what surprises us the most; each episode of politicizing and spinning what scientific progress has brought into what the religious flame throwers opine, makes Pavlov's dogs look intelligent rather than conditioned pets.
Nietzsche said: "morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose." It reminds me of a past modern era when people would not sign a petition for the Bill of Rights, calling it subversive and communistic. Ignorance and aspiration are similar as each has no bounds.
We also witnessed (via TV) the school killings in Minnesota, as if Indians haven't suffered enough humiliation. A teenaged youngster, giving many obvious hints of his unhappiness and mental shortcomings, took the lives of several innocents as we asked God another "why?" and God wondered where human common sense had disappeared to?
We ask You "why", O Lord
And You ask as "when"?
When do we think before we act?
When do we act after so many troubling hints are given?
When do we help the helpless
Who lose their helplessness when armed with a gun?
At Easter time it is celebrated when a Son of God returns to life, as parents beg to know if that is possible for lost loved ones? We resurrect our Gods as faith and our needs call, when fear and danger mutate our optimism and futures. We witness scientific change and revolutionizing technology which we fully appreciate when we own some of its stock. Do we change with time or do we change our times?
O G-d
Please share Your wisdom, finally
Or do we shy away from it when You do;
Do we ever learn from experience
Or is wisdom hidden on some distant galaxy
Waiting for a new telescope called Knowledge
To pierce the distance
And give us the answer?
As the constancy of TV gives our minds no rest, as our minds cry out to our eyes to close and take moments to think, we are pounded by the same photos of a young lady whom we do not know, who is doomed to die (as are we all), except we are not sure of how it will happen, as politics mutates the answers to "why?" We are confounded by what we do not know, corrupted by how we emotionalize our fears with our deepening ignorance of what we fail to learn. We have become a nation in fear of terror, of the unknown, of strangers who hate us and fellow citizens who hate each other, of religious fanatics who reject reason, science and the golden rule, as they redefine their gods into a country club membership instead of a welcoming, loving, sharing culture.
Noah once asked God "is there no hope", as Jonah once had. All sincere, feeling humans, watching the world around us, bereft of morale beauty, waste another year or millennium, turning their brains away from thoughtfulness and the practice of loving ones neighbor, cry to an ever- waiting God, "please why, dear God", and God answers "why do you ignore my ancient words towards forgiveness and kindness?"
So, I look outside, above my computer screen, and see sunshine, and flowers and leaves and Spring and once again celebrate that spring is a beginning each year, time for reflection, understanding and appreciation--not division. God insists that we come together for we all emanate from one Father who created our ancestors. In that beginning, He looked down and saw the creations and whispered, "It is good."
And it is.
Celebrate your holydays and your creation with love in your heart, while sharing its blessings.
sandy
