Now that we know the way things are, what shall we do to set things right? Now that we can see the problem, what shall we be about? Must we always be vigilant with the gift of clarity? What shall we do in this world of human making? The spell has been broken. There is no god but God. All that would be God’s in this world must through this gate enter. There is no god but God. Everything comes from God but that which would set itself up as authority over the creation has already lost its way. There is no god but God. Can I say it any plainer?

The creation is sacred. What we do to it matters. We come from a generation and time where the prevailing belief is what we do does not matter. This is a time when all things are relative and equally unimportant morally and ethically. It is a time when power, domination and material wealth are the reason for life. It is a time when those who have power use it to their own ends and those without are used to their detriment and ruin. It is a time when self interest and gratification are primary and encouraged and consequences are not considered unless they are personal. It is a time when we each live in a personal world insulated and isolated from the heights and depths of the fullness of the living experience of the creation. We choose ignorance and are happy in it as well as vicious, uncaring, violent and destructive.

Yet the Creator does not permit any of us to remain unconscious to the suffering we create but grows consciousness from matter. God grows the Holy Spirit in us and in all life. As part of the process, God makes us aware of God’s presence in us, in the other and between us. God makes it clear that the way is not a game of domination and one-upmanship but of recognition of God’s presence in self and other, I and thou. We experience God because we can see God in each and in the whole.

Hey, Sugar Pine standing such a long time by where the canal has been dug, we are your relations. You are our sister/brother and we thank you for your courage doing the Creator’s will. We know you choose the way same as we do. We know you take a stand and cannot run when ignorance and misfortune come your way. We ask permission, Beloved, to stand by you and pray for all of us. We are of the same heart, mind and spirit and the Creator shall have the way of which we are a conscious part. Ho.