Remembering Frank

Here we are approaching the Easter Holiday (or Holy Day) and many people are preparing for dinner, colored eggs and chocolate.  Some are even celebrating a holy man who walked this earth some two thousand years ago.

One would think that everyone would be full of the Love and Light that this man taught, or tried to teach.  That we would set aside differences and see the Divine in each other and walk the talk that so many profess.  Sadly this is not the case.  Too many people will look like they are following the teachings and yet they practice fear and all of the ugly practices that it manifests.

Why is this the case?  Why does a perfectly wonderful path get so twisted and turn back against itself instead of moving souls forward on a path of peace and enlightenment?

Mankind (we should remember the kind part) has twisted this man's teaching of the Divine in such a way that it has controlled and oppressed whole populations for righteous reasons.  This has gone on for years beyond count.  Each generation feels that because their ancestors were oppressed that it is somehow justified to oppress others.  Again this goes completely against what the Path is all about.

LOVE IS ALL THERE IS, PEOPLE!

That's it.  If we could just understand that this IS the Path, this IS the way to the Divine then maybe, just maybe things could change.  Should we expect this in the near future?  Probably not.  But we should always move forward as if it could happen.

Let it not be you (or me) to be the one who did not choose wisely.  Let us move forward in Love in all we do.  Does this mean that every step will be in Love? Probably not but we need to keep the effort moving forward or we will all be lost.  Each of us has the responsibility to make this happen.  Our right energy does make a difference to the world.

Frank, remember Frank?  He wrote something that I send to some of the people who still don't understand this concept.  People who profess to be followers yet they are still basing all their choices on fear.  Here is a copy of what my teacher, Frank wrote so long ago, please share if you like.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.

Blessings,
Don
Open Faith Ministry