A Prayer For The Pretender
It has already been a rough week, at least psychologically. We live in our minds, and the state of my mind is like the weather. I spoke with a friend who owns a local cell phone store, a new business. He confided in me that he was relieved that his business was meeting his expectations. He also offered that growth in general is slow because people are afraid. That statement summed up my sense of things. When fear and uncertainty is in the atmosphere, they eclipse the normal challenges of life. The normal challenges would be the effort to rise with a new day to take one’s place with others to earn ones sustenance. That is quite enough. Yet life is not fair, and the normal is overwhelmed by the extraordinary.
I glanced at the front page of the NY Times this morning and was impressed with this stark image. Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh attempt to escape the onslaught of a approaching cyclone. They are refugees already and now this? Life just feels like that sometime.
So I want to offer this tune as a solace and a prayer for all of us. We must muster our resources and resolve to live, allowing irrational people and institutions to spend their force–just like a cyclone. Cyclones pass as do dogmatic ways of thinking, and appeals-to-violence as a way forward in life.
