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And so the changes keep coming. A black (well, partly black) President
to be in the White House, the financial powerhouses on their knees with
their begging bowls in hand, major corporations facing massive
cut-backs, huge drops in earnings and wild weather, freak storms,
floods, runaway fires and sundry other ‘weird and wonderful’ signs of
changing times.
Ezine Editorial Nov-Dec 08 And so the changes keep coming. A black (well, partly black) President to be in the White House, the financial powerhouses on their knees with their begging bowls in hand, major corporations facing massive cut-backs, huge drops in earnings and wild weather, freak storms, floods, runaway fires and sundry other ‘weird and wonderful’ signs of changing times. Who out there, to coin part of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech after winning the US Presidential elections, still doubts that things are not as once they were. The same old predictable cycles that marked the turning of the seasons seem to have been swept away. It’s as if all the turmoil of the 20th century is revisiting us, except it’s all collapsed into days, weeks and months, instead of years and decades. But change is not the enemy and fear is not an appropriate and adaptable response, though it may be the first knee-jerk reaction of many. Suffice to say, despite appearances, all is indeed well, though turbulent. What’s going on, you may ask. The answer is that we are being asked and/or forced to adapt to new ways of being that are less wasteful, less damaging to the planet and each other, more collaborative, more harmonious and much more sustainable. That goes for everything from the financial sector and how those folk ‘value’ what they have previously been pleased to call ‘assets’, but which have actually been liabilities – as the current crises has so amply demonstrated – through to how businesses are run and down to our individual choices as consumers and citizens. The vote by Americans for change, for Obama and all he stands for, is a powerful indicator that there is a growing critical mass of people ready for the sweeping changes now upon us or which are imminently looming. Many in Europe and elsewhere around the world have been ready for some time, and the numbers are growing daily. So too, here in South Africa. Let us do exactly as the great Mahatma Gandhi implored us: let us be the change we wish to see in the world; no complaining about what’s wrong, no focus on the negatives, but simply becoming what we want to see all around us. The challenge doesn’t lie out there, but inside us – the very place each person had to reference as they entered those polling booths across America just before they made their choices. Let us, each one, look within and decide what we wish to become in this world and then, having made our choice, express that outward into our homes, workplaces and society at large. When we drive our cars, do our business, buy our goods, when we interact and work and play together, let us constantly refer to that inner guidance and trust that there is something in each one of us that knows the best we can be. And let us not fear failure – even falling short of the mark is a lesson which, when learnt, makes us stronger, wiser and more determined, as Obama said, to do better. We can all do better and that’s not a criticism but a reason for great hope and to courageously look forward to tomorrow’s sunrise because it will be in a world made better by the better choices we have made today. In Love Light Chris & The Team |
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