Accident forgiveness, and sometimes stupidity too

©Copyright LillyGrillzit all rights reserved July 13, 2010 January 21, 2011 What it takes to make a difference, re-published as Accident forgiveness, and sometimes stupidity too. All rights reserved

"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there."

Mother Teresa

As long as we roam this earth, we will make a difference. If we share stories, if our wisdom or anger was put to print, if we Intend good or not; we will continue making change. The changes can be for bad or good.

In time, it is two days past the New Moon of 2010. Today, there are loud, and angry voices crying out across the Globe. It is easy to empathize and want to join in. Frustrations mount, we heap grievance upon grievance of wrongs perpetrated on entire Peoples, Individuals and our Environment. There are real and justifiable reasons for protest and uprisings. An alternative is to hope for a Peaceful and equally satisfying solution.

A lifetime spent as an activist, has pitted Lilly against some formidable enemies. As a youngster, she was driven by anger at the treatment of The People. Lilly and her friends, protested, made signs, flipped off the cops.

They wanted peace, but often their righteous anger stirred up bad emotions and regrettable actions on each side. The Peace movement of the 1960's - 1970's was beautiful, but skipped an entire generation. What happened? Why, as a society, didn't we come fully into the "Age of Aquarius?"

After the end of the Vietnam War, there was left, a generation with fewer fathers and husbands. We were angry about a War for Profit, for the lies told in order to pull it off, the treatment of the Veterans, and that there was no winner in this action. Many who Marched for Peace, or Sat for Civil Rights, turned in their signs, joined the System promising to work from within to bring the Man down.

Sadly, we became The Man. Life became easier, while learning not to make waves. A new plug-in-drug; a box with colored lights, became our focus. This new drug, television, changed our minds, our neighborhoods, and allowed advertisers to make our decisions regarding our values. It was so easy. They were Anti-War, and the Anti came back to bite them in the rear-end.

Today, the US is facing a similar fate. The US is involved in a nest of Wars that are all about profits. The bottom line is someones' accounting statement, while the World of people, places and things are exterminated by the ever growing demand to go faster.

The summer of 2010, has awakened a new movement that is Peace, Love and Light. A new Economy is on the horizon, and those who picture a world of Love, Hope, Health and Goodness are more concerned with doing right, than being right. Social networking sites, like Facebook, MySpace and Digg are becoming centers for change. A tide of Love and Goodwill is replacing Fear and Suspicion that has been prevalent for the past 30 years.

Lilly chose to share this beautiful picture of the Ocean, that she took on her 51st Birthday this year. She chose this picture, to give you something to "Love For", rather than Fight For. She is ultra-aware, and more of the Gulf of Mexico Disaster. As a blooming Geologist, and somewhat of an expert on the Environment, Lilly can affirm that the Gulf Disaster is very bad. It is so bad, that entire weather patterns, and ocean currents have been affected..

If Lilly had placed a photo of an oil soaked bird? Or, turtles coming to shore in perilous condition, or any of the thousands of heart wrenching photos, how would that have affected your heart and mind? Lilly knows what it does to her. She wants to weep openly. It is necessary to show the images, so that the Truth is told, but for this time, Lilly wants to leave a mark, that pictures "what we want" our oceans to look like.

Pictures, and images go from the eyes into the spirit.

Lilly wants to leave you with a picture of an area of the Ocean that is beautiful, and is still a welcoming habitat for all life. On the group of rocks below the cliffs, directly in front, are all manner of Sea Lion. There is a Fat old Grandpa, and many young calves. They had been swimming in beautiful, and clean water that supports life in a healthy manner. Lilly wanted to capture, the green land at her feet, the beautiful waters near and far, and the stretch of ocean and beautiful clean air.

In writing this, Lilly hopes that you will focus on the beauty, health and livability of this habitat, and picture (May 14, 2010, less than 30 days after the Deepwell Horizon), the rest of the world's Oceans this healthy and happy.

BP Oil does have a lot to answer for, but they are only supplying what we as wheeled and speeding carbon users demand daily, at alarming volumes. It wasn't just BP's business practices, or Louisiana's Mineral Management, or Judge Feldman lifting the Moratorium on Offshore Drilling, it was all of us. It is Lilly!...Humans have a better chance at mercy, when they are willing to exhibit and practice mercy.

There is no real solution for the toxins that we have allowed to poison our Earth, but there is Hope. There are miracles, and humans can do anything. We have a spark of Divinity given to us at Creation, or at the Explosion of "Billion Year Old Carbon", how ever you think - we are all on this planet together. There is an increase in space exploration, and many are looking toward the heavens for a possible new habitat. If we look up for our Energy needs to start with, there will be no reason to leave.

If we answer Greed with a giving and loving attitude, Greed loses.

If a husband, levels his wife with softness, gentleness and kindness against her unfaithfulness, instead of beating or divorcing her, what happens? There are doors, windows and magical places that open or appear, that were not visible before.Families are strengthened and saved. Not always the way we imagine, and not like fairy tales, but it does happen. Example of choosing Hate or Love:

• Order a Maine Blueberry bush, plant it in good soil, tend it with love and music. This plant will thrive, it is a good feeling.
• Next farm neighbor down the road, sprays poison along his fence-line, on a public road that shares properties. The gets the blueberry bush, and it kills it.
• Reaction? Revenge or Forgiveness?
• Turn the cows into the offending Neighbors' garden and let them destroy it.
• Did destroying my neighbor's food source fix the blueberry plant?
• Maybe the cow destroyed more than the blueberry bush worth of harm.
• There is the beginning of war.
• War. People against the very ones they need the most.
• More food sources have been destroyed. Water, and energy wasted.
• Unhappiness rules. Community is fractured.
• No one prospers or succeeds in these anti-actions.

If I decide to love and forgive my neighbor, and look for loving ways to deal with my ground and lost Blueberry bush, I will eventually be in a place where I can help my neighbor. People need each other more than ever before, families need to come back together.

By helping him, and moving past the idiocy of what occurred, it may ignite trust. From there, the opening to teach instead of prosecute, is a moment at the crossroads. If he cares about his family, maybe he wants to be a better steward of the land and doesn't know how to begin to ask. in the long run, the positive benefit from will benefit every life form that eats, breathes, drinks or poops.

The health of the entire area is affected either way. For good or bad, those pesticides or herbacides have entered the rock cycle, and they are breaking down entering water, soil and air.

The blueberry killer, may learn from me or my books. may realize the importance of sound and wise practices. My home, neighborhood (area), town and world have all been made better by a positive reaction to a negative action.

No matter what rights have been trampled, no matter the bad decisions on the part of Policy makers; what makes the biggest difference is our Reaction...re-action, re-action - these form a chain that span our physical world, but also the world that makes dreams or nightmares come true.

As an Activist, I intend to make a chain of loving action and forgiveness of the worst violaters, so that I can receive forgiveness as needed. The difference I want today, is by sending forgiveness where it is not deserved nor warranted. Hoping this really will be the real Age of Aquarius. When we fall back in love with our precious Earth and most important, our fellow travelers. There will be a peace.

Make a Difference for Peace...Please forgive me for the harm I have caused my world in using the combustion engine vs my human energy. Thank you.