Our Hands

My heart is heavy today.  For more reasons than one, but mainly because this world and the people in it have lost almost all traces of humanity.  People today are only concerned about themselves whether friend or foe.  Generosity is becoming a scarce action, kindness is withering away and being replaced by hatred and discrimination. 
Money rules most things, material and intangible. Blood is shed daily in the name of religion and a God that so many blindly believed in.  A God that is suppose to be kind, gentle, forgiving...pure.  Yet all that worship him do not emulate that persona.
We do not live by the words we so quickly worship and call sacred.
We do not accept those that do not look or act like us.  We hurt them. With words, with actions, with beliefs, with violence, with our own fear of change and that which might be uncomfortable to us.
We do not adapt to our enviornment, but we adapt the enviornment to us.  Ruining and killing such beautiful and pure things only so that we can have what we want, and not what beneifits others.

What if we were to live for others?  Maybe a young man that took his own life because of the pain he felt due to all of this travisty would be alive today.  His mother would not be mourning the lose of her child.  The child she created with her own body, and nutured and brought to life in her own womb. 
His father would not be asking the question "why"? Or wondering what he could have done differently for his son. 

What if we were to love one another as if we loved ourselves or the ones we hold close to our hearts?
Maybe this world would not be as ugly and scary as it is now.  Maybe people would STRIVE and SUCCEED.  Be lifted up above all that has brought so many down.
What if we were to accept all that is different from what we were taught and know?  Maybe this world would not be war torn.  Maybe instead of fighting for our rights and freedom, we fought for equality and love. 

There are alot of what if's.  And the thing is, there doesn't have to be.  So many people think that they are not in control or their presence does not make a difference in this world. When in acuality, all of the control lies in our hands.
Look down at the two hands that your creator gave you, in those palms lies truth, love, understanding, healing, and all of the things that this world needs in order to change...........

Now put them to work.