Anyone who knows me, knows that I tend not to get too involved in political discussion. When asked if I’m a conservative or a liberal, I will say “neither”. When asked if I’m a democrate or a republican, I will say “neither”.
“Well, then what are you, Brett? A fence walker? You can’t spend the rest of your life not picking a side to be on.”
Fence walker? I’m not on the fence, I’m not even in your neighborhood.
In a nutshell, here is my philosophy. We all come from the same source. Whether that source is a singularity that exploded into a universe of infinite diversity or a Divine Creator that intended to put us all here on a planet we call Earth. Whether our bodies are a product of the miraculous development of an organism that began to expand and multiply into a planet of infinite diversity and species that is always developing and expanding or a Divine Creator that made us in His own image, it’s an amazing testimony that Life happens, and it happens in ways we can’t fully comprehend. But one thing is clear. Humanity happened somehow.
How do we know this? Because we are here, intermingling, having conflicts, making love, building friendships and making enemies. We know that, as individuals, we are products of a sexual act between a man and a woman who supplied the genetic material for us to grow from a few cells into a full human capable of achieving homeostasis for nearly a century.
We have a source. It’s a pattern that we see in nature constantly. Mighty Oaks come from a single acorn, a basket of apples grow from a single seed.
My inner knowing is that our source is a Divine Creator, that had a plan. He had an intention that, through His understanding of the natural world, manifest that plan. No hocus pocus, just simple, natural, devoid of opinions on how it ought to happen, but aligned with known principles based on spiritual and physical knowledge. He knew what to do, and has the power to do so. He gave us our life, and then said “Ok, it’s your show now. Forget all you’ve known and try to make it back to your source through your own trial and error. Where you end up after this phase of life is your own choice.”
I want to get back to what I know is my source. My source is spiritual, not political. My source is natural, not synthetic. My direction isn’t going to be led by the contentious arguments that develop between warring tribes that are seeking to make society what they think it ought to be, and I’m not going to join the liberal tribe, or the conservative tribe. To quote Tom Waits “the world is not my home, I’m just passing through”
This egotistical bullshit over who is ‘right’ and who is ‘wrong’ is pointless. If you want pure water, are you going to go downstream where it’s been contaminated, trodden and had the feces of animals mixed in, or are you going to climb and take the water from it’s source, the spring from which it comes? I’ll make the climb and go to the source.
So, while most others are joining the neighborhood riot, throwing accusations, names and garbage back and forth over the fences, trying to get the fence walkers to fall on either side, some of us are going to be gone trying to find the answers from our Source. Arguing politics won’t take me back to my Source. Aligning myself with principles that are real, both spiritually and physically, will take me back.
