Today's Thought - January

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January 15

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much in our world is not pretty. So many awful things happen to innocent people. So many bad people seem to be in controlling situations. But are these people really bad, or are they blind? Are they filled with evil, or are they empty of spirituality, blind to spiritual truth?

As we grow older and more sophisticated, we often grow hard. We can become "realistic" in looking at misery and injustice. Something in us says, "So be it" - as if there were no other way it could be. We stop looking and so choose blindness.

But "So be it" can mean something else. It can mean we have recognized that the state of our world is a reflection of the state of human spirituality. It can mean we have decided to throw our weight against submission to the kind of thinking that accepts the unacceptable. "So be it" can be our declaration of war against spiritual blindness.

In an effort to see clearly, I will speak out against injustice, and I will applaud beauty.

Today's reading is from the book Days of Healing, Days of Joy: Daily Meditations for Adult Children*