WE SHALL FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER

Blinding flash of the obvious: To fight hate is to give it a voice.

Ah, resist not evil is clarified and born anew within me; and this is my 80s again singing my song...a virtual clarion call now.

I resist not my niggling fear for I need to let anxiety lead me just as it did some 50 years ago when I sat in the middle of my bed sobbing in fear of losing my mind. I finally wailed my surrender by inviting insanity "to take me, take my mind...get it over with," or words to that effect. 

I believed I was going to go running out of my home, ripping my clothes off, foaming at the mouth. I sat and waited...and nothing happened. 

To be clearer...nothing outside of me happened; inside me, and unbeknownst to my reasoning mind, a spiritual revolution had taken place by my surrender. My saving search began with my failure to get my wants met...which failure birthed my need, spiritual growth, plain and simple.

The core of my spiritual growth is in those three words, resist not evil. As I have often opined, resist not evil is the source of love. I know that I claim that, and I natter about it way more than I live it...but, probably only Jesus toed the line. 

That, of course, does not give us leave to stop trying...to quote from a favorite book of mine, we must try with a will or fall by the wayside.

We are called again to Chief Joseph and his edict: I shall fight no more forever. 

Thank you.