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Mercy, mercy, mercy

It will not be the courts, laws, councils, a different political party, or any of the old systems and structures that will rescue us from the chaos. What is arising is arising so it may be seen and then may be released.

To the editor:

We witness the old coming to the surface and despotic, fearful attempts to hold on to power. It will not be the courts, laws, councils, a different political party, or any of the old systems and structures that will rescue us from the chaos. What is arising is arising so it may be seen and then may be released.

This calls for a courageous willingness to allow the personal and collective release of our fear, greed, corruption, deceit, and its bigotry, blaming, shaming, seeking punishment, and enacting violence. To allow our hearts to open in love and mercy in the recognition of our unity as a species and the understanding that there is no “them,” there is no “side,” there is no “enemy.” There is us. Each one of us in our right to be, each one of us in our inherent worth, each one of us seen and held in compassion and forgiveness. Each one of us knowing we are individuated and we have never been separate.

No matter what we have been taught or have inherited, there is within us the deep knowing of our hearts and souls that we have never been and we cannot be separate from our source or god beyond any name ever used or claimed. The truth of this love, this light, this consciousness and frequency rising will heal and unite us. And the Earth is rising and will heal in love and from the nurturing of our gratitude, reverence, and respect. This rising is not an impossibility. It is happening.

Gina James
Great Barrington

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