ARE WE BECOMING INDIFFERENT TO OUR HUMANNESS?

                                                  HAVE WE BECOME INDIFFERENT TO GOD?

A heartfelt welcome,

     Are you as Paul Simon says in the song Dangling Conversations, "couched in your indifference? " Do you find yourself more fearful than you used to be?  Do you blame it on growing older?  Or do you blame it on the world?  Do you blame it on God? How can we as humanity deal with the fears that we are made aware of through the movies?  The news?  The newspapers?  Our own backyards?   The media often broadcast pictures of the violence human beings bring upon each other, this earth and ourselves and we are faced with graphic videos of horrifying examples - crimes against humanity.  Every night on the evening news, we see more and more of what human beings of all nations have done in their brokenness, and viewers find their hearts being covered with fear and muted with shell or armor that keeps them from feeling the true humanness that we have been created to feel.

     In 1999 at the White House Conference for a New Millennium, Elie Wiesel an author and holocaust survivor, read the historic speech entitled “The Perils of Indifference”.  In this speech, he spoke to the crimes humanity has brought to bear on itself. The words in his historic quote, speak the meaning of indifference, “Indifference reduces the other to abstraction.”  This profound phrase of genius is manifested throughout our world this day in a myriad of ways. 

     When I speak of indifference, I speak to the shell that we have created over our hearts to defend us from the onslaught of painful images we face every day.  We have created it there to hide us from our true worth and to keep us from the part of ourselves that has the infinite power to change us.  We go through our lives, covering up from this part of ourselves, our hearts – disguising this cover-up by being driven to distraction to get somewhere else, somewhere far from here, the here that would be called by some, as living within our hearts.

     And what do we do with this indifference?  We hide behind it, thinking that we are hiding from it when we are only hiding from our true Selves.  Does hiding behind your four walls really make you safer?  Or does it hide your heart from the problems that exist outside of them?  Does hiding your heart in political correctness when you are working with an employee really help them?  Or does it protect you from your own need to use your heart in the communication.  Have we relied on our indifference to keep us from using our hearts? Have we created indifference to keep us from feeling them?

     In the center of our hearts lies the life within us, felt by some to be a spark of God Self.  And if you are spiritually in tune with this you can see your heart is aligned with your love, your compassion, goodness, truth kindness, hope and faith.  Are these not the seeds of the heart?  Or as mentioned in ancient texts, aren’t these the fruits of the spirit?  Do we not grow these seeds when we are in a beauty filled relationship?  Or when we wish to create peace?  Do we not honor these seeds when we go to Church on Sunday, or temple on Saturday?  Why then do we hide from them all other days of the week when we deal with each other?

     Our indifference that reduces another human being to abstraction reduces our experience of God by distraction.  If we are disconnected from our hearts because our egos are more important and the shell of this large false self mutes our pain, then we do not have to see each other as human beings with soul depth and heart.  We instead can see one another as intangible and remote, unrelated to our humanness – the humanness that we are unable to relate to in ourselves.  If we extract a mind being, and bury the heartfelt being, are we no different than those who have slaughtered and maimed?  Where then is that God Self?  Where are the kindness, the love and the hope that bring us to our deepest essential purpose?  It is lost with our humanness.

    I challenge you to Iook around you at those you pass in the supermarkets, in the banks, and in your workplace at your coworkers.  Look into the eyes of your fellow human beings and smile.  Know that when you connect with another, your own heart too is warmed and your spirit soars. You are sharing your strength, the strength of the human race.  When you avoid the knowing of another’s heart with your indifference, you do this to all of humankind.  For what you feel within you is what you give without, what you give to the world.

                                                                       Feel about it...

                                         With a myriad of blessings, peace and love,

                                                                    Frannie Rose

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