Let's turn hate to love
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Editor,
As I write, President Obama has met with foreign heads of state at Camp David and is now in Chicago attending the NATO summit. Pressing issues on both military and economic situations are front and center in these meetings, pressing issues so often caused by minds filled with hate, fear, anger, and greed.
Many letters to the editor I read quote the Bible, using Biblical references to support opinions. It surely seems proper and sensible to use one's “spiritual tool” to support beliefs. I, too, have a “spiritual tool” which I have been using much of my adult life to build my belief system. It is "A Course In Miracles." The revelator of this course is, interestingly, the same beloved Jesus of Biblical fame.
In chapter 13 of the text, Jesus makes this interesting and provocative comment: "In honesty, is it not harder for you to say 'I love' than 'I hate'? You associate love with weakness and hatred with strength, and your own real power seems to you as your real weakness."
Just look at where we are today with our Camp David meetings and NATO summit focusing upon the world's military and economic problems of our own making. The next logical question is: "How can we ever get out of this mess?"
Bottom line as I see it is this: Unless our spiritual/religious tools help shift our mindsets from hate to love, we will never get ourselves out of this mess. Everything comes back to the mind. Everything we feel, think, speak, and do comes from our mindset. The Camp David folks and the NATO folks can talk 'til they are blue in the face, but unless minds change to the feeling of benevolence and brotherhood that people should have for each other, nothing in the external will really change.
Bob McClellan
Polson
