In a little departure from the usual conversation, I want to address the sad tragedy in Aurora, Colorado today. Most people don’t realize these articles are written well in advance of publishing by Bellesprit Magazine. This one too is being written in July on the twenty first. Yesterday morning I awoke to chilling news that a movie premiere (that had been anxiously awaited by fans and movie goers alike) had been rampaged killing about a dozen people and injuring a hundred more. Their abuser and murderer has taken a back seat to his crime, as people from all over the country, indeed all over the world, have turned their eyes and their hearts towards his victims. I found myself sickened as I read the news knowing that friends of mine live near and in Aurora; some of which are sci-fi fans and others who are just folks.
A lot of thoughts are racing through my mind at all of this. As a psychic and a medium, as well as a spiritual advisor, I see this thing in a different way than most people do. I have to shield myself to some extent due to the huge emotional bomb that was dropped on the entire country because of this event. The fallout from this particular incident is not unlike the nuclear event that happened in March a year ago in Japan. Many people died, many people’s lives were forever changed. Quite honestly, I don’t think anyone in the world was unaffected by that event; even to the place where we will look back and say “There…it was there that the world changed.” Columbine…with its devastation and similarity to Aurora’s event was a changing point as well. No one in this country will ever forget the lasting atrocity that was 9/11. I can name a dozen or more events that have hit this country in the past ten years.
With the memory of these events and the grief of this one, I found myself on my knees in front of my altar as I often do during times of worry or sorrow. “Mother, Father…why?” I ask impatiently. “Why do these things come about…why here, why now? Why don’t you send someone to take care of these things so they don’t happen anymore?!”
I drift into my meditation on the smoke of incense and tears, hot anger and sorrow to commune with my Gods. The questions swirl around in my brain and settle like a fog too heavy with grief and emotion…and suddenly there they are; My Lady and my Lord, the light and the dark of all life. I find myself clinging to the fabric of Her gown scented with the smell of clean clothes from the line, the aroma of rain, a half forgotten dream of my birth mother and her sweet milk upon my tongue and the deep scents of the freshly plowed earth.
His radiance falls on me like the rays of the Sun burning with truth, and the reflections of the sunlight dance on the waters of Her mantle. Their beauty both together and apart brings tears to me and I ask them again, “Why, why have you not sent anyone??” Her voice falls on my ears like a dozen sweet songs, each more beautiful than the last.
“Why my child,” she smiles so gently, “I sent you.”
And I reply, “But, Mother…I am only one.”
“But my darling, I don’t mean I only sent you…I sent you all…all of the people in all of the places can make their difference by the way you all live. Yes, my darling … I sent you all.” I found myself back again unwilling to let them go, unwilling to be away from them again. Back in front of candles long burned down and incense gone cold.
I challenge each and every reader to take a moment and talk to your Higher Power regardless of how you call them…and realize you were sent; not alone, and not powerless either, to change the world by changing your small place in it. Not by violence, force or needless bloodshed…but by your daily actions of kindness, generosity, charity and love towards your families, your friends and to the passing stranger. Realize your neighbor suffers his challenges and lend a hand. Pick up a book and read it. Sing; joyfully and loud. And let’s all dance in the rain…just as we were sent to do; just as we were meant to do. Let’s change the ending of the story, and make each story a glory and a tribute to the Universe that made us and sent us. Yes…Lets realize that we were all sent and we can make all the difference.
