Newtown - A Crucifixion Event

A crucifixion is meant to help us as a whole, as a collective, to remember who we truly are and where we are going.  We can choose to look at this and move forward and become better human beings or we can look at it and become bitter and stay stuck. I hope that this latest crucifixion event isn’t wasted, isn’t lost; that the innocents who participated in this crucifixion event shouldn’t have their sacrifice be in vain.  What we need to decide as a collective whole and as an individual is what we want to become, who we want to become.

This is just the latest in a series of crucifixion events. There have been several in just the past four years. They seem to be occurring more and more frequently. we have paid little attention or we have used them to justify our separateness and our fears, perhaps because they mostly involved other adults, a few innocents, but apparently not enough to jar consciousness, to make us wake-up. So these little innocents stepped in and made the ultimate sacrifice, because we can’t turn away!  We can’t spend a few days going, “ Oh this is an awful tragedy” and then do nothing.  We must decide where we are going to go and who we are going to be after this life changing, society changing, world-changing event. It is a crucifixion event and we need to look at.  We need to look at ourselves and make some changes; changes that move us closer to the God conscious beings that we say we want to be. 

I am not a particularly religious being; but I am aware that there is a benevolent consciousness that keeps a wondrous order to this universe.  For me that consciousness is inherent in all of us. It is up to us to join in that order of things for the ultimate betterment of our being, both individually and collectively or to use this crucifixion event to reinforce our separateness and fear. 

I am being forced now to put my words into action and make a public statement of who and what I would like to be and what I would like this world to be. I don’t relish presenting my beliefs and my convictions to the world for scrutiny.  I am not that much of a crusader ordinarily.  I can no longer; however, sit in my solitary comfort zone and observe (and judge) the world without any action to back up my convictions.  I would never try to force anyone to change his or her views on an individual basis; but I feel it necessary to get involved to change the collective view if we are to change for the better.

I still believe this is possible.  Perhaps I am not as much the pessimist as I see myself.  Perhaps I have just been afraid to speak my mind about my vision of the world and society.  Perhaps I am just too much of a coward to stand behind my convictions leave myself open for criticism.  I can no longer sit in silence and watch others try to make changes in our world.  I need to step up to the plate and take my turn at bat.  I am not sure what that looks like; but, I am ready and standing on deck.  Put me in coach I am ready to play.