We Are All One

The liar and the lied-to; The embezzler and the embezzellee; The hater and the hated; The contemptuous and the contempted; The adulterer, spouse and adulteree; The angered one and his object; The abortionist, the aborter and the aborted; The thief and his victim; The conner and the conned; The abuser and the abused: We all are one.. What I do, what you do, what we all do to one another in anger,hatred, greed, lust and depravity we do from our own brokenness. We are all wounded birds, shot through with our frail genetics and pierced by our circumstances. What we do comes from what we are; what we are is shaped from all that has gone before in and to and out of us. We are molded in the image of our ancestors and chiseled by our life into something or someone we often do not like or love. There is a brokenness in which we all share, a brokenness of genetics and a brokenness of family, of circumstance and of action. We are all perpetrators of horrendous deeds against others fruiting out of this brokenness: an evil fruit of an evil tree. We are selfish, cruel and heartless. Ego rules.Greed runs roughshod through our streets, trampling underfoot all who are in the way. It is only in degree and opportunity that we differ. Is it possible to be healed of that which has broken us, maimed and distorted us? Can I find some power enabling me to walk in your shoes; to look through your eyes; to treat you even better than I treat myself? What magic, what learning, what power would invade me that in you I see myself; joy in your comfort; your pleasure; your gain? Oh Great Healer, Genetic Engineer, Worker in the warp and woof of circumstance, Tinker and mender of hings broken, Carver of distorted objects; You who took on serpent to heal, who took our wounds, absorbed our pain, blotted up all that we are and have done into Yourself: we turn to You in gratitude and praise, knowing we cannot heal ourselves and that the only healing that is, is from and through You. 3/18/12