From: Nancy Warren
Columbus
Throughout the past several days as I watched and listened to the many tributes to the life that was George Floyd, heard the excuses and explanations for his death and the injuries inflicted upon innocent others, I was reminded of an old story that moved me to write about it: a story about our humanity.
As I continued to watch and listen to all that is being brought out and into reports and conversations about the death of George Floyd, the larger picture became about humanity because it is the Light of our shared humanity that shines upon the similarities between human beings. It is about "us." The color of our skin, differences of opinion, or different lifestyles don’t determine who we are. No, it is what we hold dear in our heart and the ways we turn to the Light to express it that sets us apart from that is dark and evil.
When we are able to see others as sharing our humanity, as being no different than ourselves, we will have reached a state where we will no longer choose to harm other human beings. The ability to harm and kill others does not confine or limit itself to war time, but can become a pervasive and malignant way of being that ultimately permeates every corner and crevice of our society; perhaps the world. It manifests and spreads in countless ways, like a mutating disease that knows no boundaries.
If we truly embrace the premise that, in harming others we harm ourselves even more, our only fear will be of losing that part of our self that distinguishes us from those who choose evil.
