We live in a period of rapid and great change.
The past few years have proven to be unsettling for so many
of us human beings. Lifestyles and lifelines have been disrupted and severed. While
many people applaud these changes, others of us recognize that change does not
necessarily bring improvement to personal or general quality of life.
Explosive growth in numbers of unemployed in Europe and
America, along with significant increases in numbers of people dependent upon
food banks and supplemental nutrition programs remain strong indicators of
unwelcome changes. Millions who were not poor half a dozen years ago have
joined the billions who have known poverty since birth.
A look at the growing poor phenomenon tells this story: Look at elusive definitions here
Recently published financial reports indicate that
corporations are setting new profit records, as usual. The number of
billionaires increases each year. These are, perhaps, meaningless statistics
because the real value of the United States Dollar/Federal Reserve Note has
decreased steadily with inflation. More important than anyone’s net worth in
Federal Reserve Notes is the fact that the number of young lives lost each
day to starvation, bad water and related diseases remains consistently
close to 30,000 per day.
War munitions and machinery contribute an increasing
proportion of corporate profits, leading to stock price surges, as civilian
deaths from the same technology steadily increase. Death is an exceedingly
profitable business.
The human spirit is remarkably resilient. Our minds are
capable of ingenious solutions to individual and collective problems. Freedom
to apply innovative solutions is essential to human resilience and survival.
Freedom and creativity combined in individuals will provide
seeds of regeneration for humanity, even as current destructive forces sweep
across our landscapes, whether material and spiritual or social and economic.
The future of all life itself begins with regeneration.
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