Sunday, December 22, 2024

 


Defile, Destroy, and Die

Voice of the Prophet

We just had a gunman/executioner mark his bullets with Deny, Delay and Depose, awakening a massive conversation around the state of health care today. There are many who sympathize with his frustration, hate, and resistance even while condemning his act. Often it takes something large and startling to get our conversation going.

Unfortunately, we are not as aware of nature signaling its deep distress and messages, because in our society, we consider that nature has no voice.

And yet, for a supposedly Christian country, the bible itself heralds nature as a huge force of communication, explanation, and revelation if we have the ears to hear and the eyes to see.

The whale swallowed Jonah, the floods wiped out civilization, and in the end times of Revelation the forces of nature come together in a frightening crescendo of destruction. Nature is constantly used in the bible to inform us of our state in relationship to the divine. Wars and pestilence, famine and drought, earthquakes, volcanoes, the blotting out of the stars, moon, and sun, and it all begins with a rider on a white horse who came conquering and to conquer. Someone who looks very shining but is only the beginning of the destruction of the end, followed by natural disasters, wars, famines, and pestilences.

Now let’s take a few minutes to look at Donald’s last trip through the White House (horse?) as it culminated in 2019);

Defilement:  April 15, 2019 - Notre Dame burned in an amazing conflagration that held the attention of the entire world in a dreaded fascination. How could this happen, we asked ourselves?

Who is Notre Dame – Our Lady. And she burned – her regal spire of beauty toppled and her roof of protection incinerated. This Iconic representation of Lady, the sacredness of her essence, was defiled and burned, and the entire world was horrified. In America today, the defilement of the female is in full swing, and the earth pealed that warning out in fire on April 15, 2019, the third year of the reign of our lord and savior, Donald J Trump. The disrespectful treatment of women in this country spawned by his watch is unprecedented in democratic countries the world over and has continued to grow like an ugly cancer in America since then. Not one democracy treats its women with the lack of respect and equality that we currently do and continue to grow in our doing, here. Attacks upon the rights, freedoms and safety of our ladies will continue under his watch. Our Lady has suffered, and will continue to suffer, in America since the reign of Donald, Defiler of Women, began.

Destruction: Between September 2019 and March 2020, 12.6 million hectares, about 31 million acres, of forest and bushland burned in Australia causing environmental repercussions the world over. About 3 billion animals were impacted and 1700 species of plants animals and eco communities are now threatened with extinction. Again, the world watched in horror as Australia burned. The temperatures leading up to this global disaster, whose ashes were felt across the globe, were record breaking highs. Fire rose up to speak to us next about the destruction of our planet. Our lack of care and the total ignorance of environmental danger are hallmark traits of the reign of DJT. The earth is assured he will continue his campaign of denial and destruction against her as he goes.

Death: March 2020 - And as the fires burned down, another was revving up. A pestilence came upon the land and the people died. By March as the land fires died in Australia, here in America the pestilence of the vile attitudes we have toward our land, our women and each other reached new heights in unrestrained death, despair, anger and division in the form of Covid 19. We lost around 7 million overall as recorded in Covid figures with the estimated global death to be somewhere more, around 18 million, as many countries were not adequately able to record statistics. Here in America a staggering 103 million cases were reported and 1.2 million deaths recorded. Nations have suffered since then, struggling economically and politically, and in our own, the struggle with violence, hate and the unacknowledged role of declining mental and emotional health has led to almost daily acts of depravity, mindlessness, distrust and despair. We drive ourselves into walls, kill the innocent and embrace the guilty.

 Donald’s advent is the incarnation of a trilogy of defilement, destruction, and death.

And still we have not heard or read the signs around us. Still, we are not paying attention to the screaming of the globe and its inhabitants through signs and natural disaster, and even worse, we have attributed savior status to the one who carries the curse. Once more we have installed the golden crowned conqueror, the shiny hopeful thing full of lies and deceit and unfulfilled, inept promises who robs from the poor and gives to the rich.

For the past 4 years DJT has continued to assault our democracy, deride our government and foment hatred and unrest. Be assured he held meetings with the war mongers in Russia and Israel to keep the destruction and death alive to build his palace upon. They willingly agreed but will not bend the knee to peace at his bequest no matter what. He has unleashed uncontrollable forces of evil upon the land and the people, fomenting wars for his own benefit. His regime will not be blessed, but it will continue to be a beacon of world warning as it continues to rob and deceive the people it has purported it will help.

Watch over these next few years and see what the earth coughs up to help us see as dictators and wars rise, economies and people suffer, and who knows what further outbursts of natural unrest and upheaval continue while Donald cannot make peace or prosperity happen. Listen to nature, look, record and remember.

Remember in the days of the bible how the prophets spoke, the earth shook, and the people did not listen.

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Shark Tank

 

Shark!
Back in 2020 I offered an Animal Tarot card reading on the post election energies. To my dismay, Shark came up as the final outcome card. Not knowing what time-frame my reading was encompassing, I have waited and watched. I think perhaps the time is now. 

The message of Shark is that it is death and destruction, but it is not personal. A shark has no personal connection. It just sees prey, food, and is ultimately equipped to eat it, ravenously. It never looks at you when it does. Its lack-life eyes roll back in its head so it can devour you without ever seeing you. 

The antidote to Shark, the Destroyer, in the message, was to stay out of its path. Shark will destroy everything in its path with no thought or care. Just beware and watch out for it.The deal is to stay out of its way.

Once again, Shark has swum into our home waters. This poem came through and I offer it here as the vision appeared as I was writing it:

The Shark Tank

 

It’s a feeding frenzy on the American Economy.

Watch as the sharks circle waiting to close in on Washington

The gleam in their emotionless eyes

Is the reflection of their supporters’ surprise

As they find themselves the prize

Meal on the table

 

The crumbs of our meager fortunes

Are their meat and bones

To be crunched and imbibed

Benefits and freedoms denied

As we cough up our innards and strive to survive

 

The sharks are circling in glutenous greed

The vampire’s meal, with jubilation, to feed

On America’s flesh and blood, sweetened with sweat.

We are the entrĂ©e – the scent of our death drives them mad

 

We squeeze up all we have into the giant never satisfied maw

Delighting the deceivers who lured us

Into the shallows of thoughtlessness

Tempting us with more

When we are it – all they were hoping for.


Saturday, November 9, 2024

HOPE


The dust is settling

The political fires are over

Some lost hope

Some are rolling in clover….


Another election has gone by, and I have post-election thoughts to share. I have resurrected my Google blog as this is where I feel comfortable posting about things of politics, beliefs, and hope.

Right now, 51% of our country is rolling in hope and joy. They have felt dis-inherited from their own country and have threatened violence in their deep angers and bitterness. Now they have their hero coming into place. Their hopes are high.

Forty-eight percent of the country is in despair, holding their breath, making contingency plans and hunkering down for a long - hopefully only 4 - years.

There is hope for all.

Now is the time for all of us - the 51 and the 48 - to come together to hold our newly elected leader accountable for his words both vague and clear, unpromised or dimly promised promises, and his actions. Fifty-one percent are expectant. Let them be fulfilled and joyous – may their times of hoped-for prosperity come to fruition. May inflation go down, wars end, small farmers flourish, and the rural working people prosper. May they receive the more affordable living they hope for, may they receive good health care for their daughters and themselves, be able to care for their elders, earn good wages and enjoy happy retirement. May they live in freedom and may the values of family living and integrity be preserved. May they feel safe and heard and may America be regarded as a great and good influence upon the world. May the national debt go down and our economy thrive.

And may the 48 percent be present to highlight these expected accomplishments, or the lack of them.

What can we, the disappointed, do?

Now is the time to watch, observe and comment. As things fail to live up to our countrymates expectations, we must be the patient and kind vocal commentators that help to keep the dreams alive. When the economy gets worse instead of better, when our allies do not view us as friends and our supporters are those who oppress, we need to raise a voice of comment to our 51 percent family and friends, calmly and lovingly pointing out where words, actions and results do not match or produce the desired and expected effects.

When their and our daughters suffer and die from preventable reproductive issues and the infant and maternal mortality rates rise as they have been, we need to talk about it. When costs are higher, not lower, when tax breaks and sweet favors flow to the very rich while the working people suffer, we need to talk about it with our families and friends. When health care becomes hard to get and does not cover what is needed, we need to talk about it – not accusingly, but commentatively. When small farmers see their lands and livelihood suffer and disappear, we need to talk about it. When internment camps and ethnic and gender group persecutions disrupt the flow of daily American life and when federal disaster response is a disaster, we need to talk about it. When prices rise due to tariffs, when higher education is unaffordable and public education puts our children behind the economic world curve, we need to converse around the supper table, in the grocery store, at the mall, in the parents’ meetings.

We are all in this together, 

for better or for worse. Let us ride the times with gentleness but with clarity and compassionate courage and speak, speak, speak in kindness with our neighbors.

These may not be the times we hoped for, but they will present the opportunities we need to bring our country’s people together. And that is the true source of hope.