What, I ask you, has happened to make us so comfortable with dissociation, in forgetting that we are humans who need one another, depend upon one another and ultimately, live, breathe and exist for the soul (I spelt that correctly English majors) purpose of being in relationship with one another? If it, life, is not about people, about sharing, caring and loving one another then what, again I ask you, is the purpose of you and me taking up space in the strangeness of time? I breathed out there as I finished the last sentence as the relief of what I was thinking and feeling spilled from my heart and onto a page in a virtual world. Is this, too, a part of the fugue state I sense we are now living, where I spill from my guts what I want to scream in the world? I want to yell loudly, clearly, wake up, wake up, stop allowing the people in your life to slip past you, unknown, unappreciated, unloved…unloved dear ones, how can this be, for you and me to not love? It is incomprehensible which leads me to this…
Our world is dangerously devil soaked. We have marinated in self serving self righteous striving and grinding and getting and it comes at a price. There are lives that are lived, sadly alone and in wretchedness because you and I didn’t stop and take notice that while we were getting for ourselves, we left behind the ones that needed us the most, that only wanted to be noticed and next, loved for who they are…we are guilty, of heeding the devil and his demands upon us and disassociating from what God has called us to, which is to selflessly love, to die to our own desires and demands and to give to the ones he has generously, kindly, thoughtfully, mercifully placed in our midst. Let there be a return of our memory to what matters, a reverse of our amnesia, and I beg, a remembering of what life is about. It is and always has been, about love.
