Written on 9/12/2001 in Memory of September 11, 2001
Many friends with whom I've spoken since September 11 describe themselves as numb or lifeless, after hearing of the blatant evil perpetrated on thousands of innocent Americans. Surely part of this numbness, this lifelessness is due to the energy expelled in trying to make sense out of horror. I believe there is no comfort to be found in the abominable attempt to destruct our nation's peace and proficiency. What solace exists in evil? Only those completely asleep to the goodness of Love and even their own goodness could ever latch on to the nothingness evil offers.
As a young child, I would wonder if there is a God, how can he let these terrible things happen? Now as a parent, attempting to provide my children with feelings of safety and gratitude, I present them with this, "What if God isn't so much a great wizard in the sky directing and overseeing all, but is instead an undeniable law? What if that law is a law of Love that knows only itself and is oblivious to anything unlike it?"
My mentor, Miss Freda Dixon, a sage of 99 years would most likely say, "Haven't I told you the story about my snowplow?" She'd then go on to recount how difficult it was for her years ago to understand how Love could destroy evil if it didn't know anything about it. Then one day she looked out the window of her Colorado Mountain home to witness a snowplow separating the snow from the road. She would probably say, "That snowplow didn't know a cotton picking thing about that snow, but dispersed it all the same and cleared a path of Truth."
Presently my salvation has been remembering Freda's beloved snowplow and attempting to emulate it. I choose fascination with love and forgiveness instead of mesmerism with the ugliness of evil. I maintain that I am creating peace by stopping the cycle of vicious thoughts and therefore vicious deeds. I choose a path filled with the grace of Truth and Love, and leave the fury of evil to be brushed aside without the attention or recognition it needs to exist.
Dear Americans, I believe it's not only okay, it's the right thing to proceed through the up coming weeks and years not understanding this event. How futile to spend our time trying to understand what isn't even worth understanding. By refusing enthrallment with this terror, this horror, by keeping our focus on our true job - expressing Love -- we can become magnificent snowplows, separating evil from our paths while quietly not knowing a thing about it.
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