Keeping America Good

I have often thought that the name of this project might be disconcerting to some as it seems to imply that there is nothing wrong with how America has been going about the business of being America.  This is not the case, and I am not that naive.  However, I do believe that at the core of us all is goodness.   We are not, and cannot be separate from God. I also recognize that I live in the Americas (yes, plural) , and that covers a vast terrain and several nations.  However, I do want to take a stand against the catchy phrase, "Make America Great Again."  That phrase has done far more harm than good.  It has set up and bolstered the idea that there are those who are keeping America from being great and they must be kept out at the border and at the polls.  How can great be defined?  Greatness is an illusion that the ego will tenaciously cling to even in the midst of destruction.  We need to be a nation of good. We are not a nation of equality, and I do not think we have been since the arrival of the European American.  However, I do believe that in every generation there have been those who have been working to establish equilibrium.  Thank goodness the work continues.     

In  Ellen Grace O'Brian's book, The Jewel of Abundance, She writes: 

We live in an awakening world, in a time of individual and global awakening to the great truth that life is One, and that life is God. As life is God in expression, it is whole, complete, abundant, and lacks nothing.  Awakening to this wholeness brings the experience of radical prosperity, or sufficiency, and with it, a new way of living. There is enough for all in God's economy. It is time for us to shed the idea that one person's good is another's loss and to rise to the truth that all can, and must, prosper. It is time to free ourselves and our world - our children and our grandchildren - from the specter of scarcity....

 

We are awakening to our potential to create a prospering world that works for everyone - evolving from an egocentric model of life to a spiritually based one. As long as we remain in the egocentric system, and unaware of wholeness, there will be lack, fear, and scarcity arising from the collective consciousness.  That unawakened consciousness cannot see that we are connected to one another, to the earth and nature, and to God (38-39).     

Mark Nepo in his book, The Book of Awakening, reminds us of the story of Odysseus, who was yearning to "return to his glory days at sea." He experiences a dream where a soothsayer tells him to "Take your favorite oar and go inland until no one has heard of you, and then go farther until no one has heard of an oar or the sea. Plant your oar there and start a garden (335)."  

   

It is time to plant our glory day oars and begin the work of becoming a nation, not of conquest and hoarding, but a land awakening to the call to care for all beings.          

   

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If you are on Facebook, please go to the Keeping America Good Facebook page and click like.  Thank you.  We are a movement.   And please, do not vote for any candidate who claims that climate change is a hoax and that gun regulation will bring about our demise.