[NV Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Don't loose heart. We were made for these times.

[Paul Etxeberri]

>
>Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estes,
>Ph.D.
>
>Do not lose heart.  We were made for these times.  I have heard from so many
>recently who are deeply and properly bewildered.  They are concerned about
>the state of affairs in our world right now ...  Ours is a time of almost
>daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of
>what matters most to civilized, visionary people.
>
>You are right in your assessments.  The lustre and hubris some have aspired
>to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday
>people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking.  Yet, I urge
>you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing
>these difficult times.  Especially do not lose hope.  Most particularly
>because, the fact is - we were made for these times.  Yes.  For years, we
>have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to
>meet on this exact plane of engagement...
>
>I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see
>one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able crafts in the
>waters than there are right now across the world.  And they are fully
>provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of
>humankind...  Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of
>righteous souls on the waters with you.  Even though your veneers may shiver
>from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers
>composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained
>lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and
>to advance, regardless.
>
>We have been in training for a dark time such as this, since the day we
>assented to come to Earth.  For many decades, worldwide, souls just like us
>have been felled and left for dead in so many ways over and over brought
>down by naivete, by lack of love, by being ambushed and assaulted by various
>cultural and personal shocks in the extreme.  We have a history of being
>gutted, and yet remember this especially - we have also, of necessity,
>perfected the knack of resurrection.  Over and over again we have been the
>living proof that that which has been exiled, lost, or foundered can be
>restored to life again.
>
>In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much
>is wrong or unmended in the world.  Do not focus on that.  There is a
>tendency too to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside
>your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there.  That is spending the
>wind without raising the sails.  We are needed, that is all we can know.
>And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will
>hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear.
>Didn't you say you were a believer?  Didn't you say you pledged to listen to
>a voice greater?  Didn't you ask for grace?  Don't you remember that to be
>in grace means to submit to the voice greater?...
>
>Understand the paradox: If you study the physics of a waterspout, you will
>see that the outer vortex whirls far more quickly than the inner one.  To
>calm the storm means to quiet the outer layer, to cause it to swirl much
>less, to more evenly match the velocity of the inner core - till whatever
>has been lifted into such a vicious funnel falls back to Earth, lays down,
>is peaceable again.  One of the most important steps you can take to help
>calm the storm is to not allow yourself to be taken in a flurry of
>overwrought emotion or desperation thereby accidentally contributing to the
>swale and the swirl.
>
>Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of
>stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
>Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist
>some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely.  It is not
>given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to
>tip toward an enduring good.  What is needed for dramatic change is an
>accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing.  We know
>that it does not take "everyone on Earth" to bring justice and peace, but
>only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first,
>second, or hundredth gale.
>
>One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in
>a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.  Soul on
>deck shines like gold in dark times.  The light of the soul throws
>sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters
>to catch fire.  To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like
>these-to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of
>immense bravery and greatest necessity.  Struggling souls catch light from
>other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.
>
>If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things
>you can do.
>
>There will always be times when you feel discouraged.  I too have felt
>despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not
>entertain it.  It is not allowed to eat from my plate.  The reason is this:
>In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be
>no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who
>sent you here.  The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours:
>They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here.  In that
>spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in
>harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt.  But that is not what
>great ships are built for.
>
>This comes with much love and prayer that you remember who you came from,
>and why you came to this beautiful, needful Earth.
>
>-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Author, Women Who Run With the Wolves
>
>
>
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-- 
Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand