What is going on? For the first time in years the American public is energized, motivated and excited about politics. Barack Obama has inspired our united spirit. He has put the sparkle back in our lives. Right now, at this time in our history, it is the best thing that could have happened. I don’t ever remember being moved by a politician. Never. That is, not until now! Senator Obama has awakened thousands of people to optimism. He has the courage, energy and enthusiasm to propose we actually work toward becoming a balanced humanity. Together we can hope, dream and visualize our way to an equitable future. He sees the whole picture with superior intelligence and great depth of understanding. Just imagine he is stirring a nation!
My nature is not to be cynical, but considering the imbalance of the current administration, I have felt terribly disheartened the last several years. I have not been alone in my consternation about the war in Iraq, the economy, health care, education, global warming, and the erosion of our constitution. These, plus a myriad of other issues, have weighed heavily on us collectively as a country. We certainly are witnessing a dysfunctional government which has been forcing its policy on us to the point of dis-ease. We have become an unhealthy society.
We allowed two elections to be stolen and then have slowly watched in horror as our values have been twisted and distorted and then spread around the world as political gospel. We have an emotionally dishonest, fear based President who has done nothing to support love of ourselves or love of our neighbors.
As a collective group of souls we have felt tricked into a war not of our choosing. We see ourselves as victims. The amount of money borrowed and squandered will put us in debt for generations to come. Negative news is propagated through the main stream media. Apprehension has permeated much of our lives. We have taken a huge hit to our security, growth and well being. With the pain, poverty, and shame we have been experiencing, it is easy to feel helpless. There are steps we can take to walk the path to sanity, but since we have had so much resistance it is difficult to know where to start?
We begin with HOPE.
In my film, I SURVIVED: ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY OF SELF-HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION, I shared my story of hope. After years of repression and emotional turmoil, when I had reached bottom, and was seriously contemplating suicide, I had a dream that it was possible to become balanced and whole. I saw a glimmer of light coming from a rock, a light as small as a tiny speck of dust that I focused on for months. Slowly the light began to get brighter and brighter. I never gave up HOPE and worked on my recovery steadily for seven years. I now am a healthy, happy woman.
At the same time I was beginning to heal, I received a book of poems in the mail from an anonymous benefactor. Enclosed with this book was a beautiful card with a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson that read: We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope.
We may not be mindful of the fact that we need inspiration to pull ourselves out of chaos but Barack Obama has appeared when we collectively have reached bottom. He is raising us up from the victim mentality where we have felt trapped and think there is nothing we can do about the injustice so apparent in our country. He is leading a tidal wave of movement by showing us that together we have the opportunity to free ourselves from an oppressive government. He has given us a reason to wish, anticipate, and trust that we can create a healthy America, a fair and just government, where our dreams will not be buried forever. He is a strong, balanced man, one who genuinely cares about his fellow human beings. If the work he has done in the past is an indication of his future, I have no doubt he will make a great president. I urge you to check out his impressive voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate.
I don’t believe in accidents. His inspiration is an agent of hope. I feel Senator Obama is divine guidance influencing the soul of humanity. He is a gift to us!
