Gird Your Loins

Gird your loins

The Christian Bible says this and it is appropriate for today’s world. The 47^th President of the United States was installed on Monday and he immediately set about putting into place as many hurtful policies as possible. His many supporters are cheering him on while he is basking in the approval of the country’s richest men. It’s difficult to predict how all of this will turn out.

Lately, I’ve been watching some YouTube videos by people who claim to have psychic skills. I thought it would be interesting to see what they have to say. For a few weeks, some of them predicted 47 wouldn’t be inaugurated, that something would happen to keep him out of office. This didn’t happen.

Now some are saying he won’t be in office very long and will be replaced by someone better who isn’t the current vice-president. The validity of this remains to be seen. What’s important to remember is even if these people disappear, a movement has been installed and there are a lot of our countrymen who like this restrictive, white-male-Christian-nationalist form of government.

I know there are people who are devastated, tearful, scared, and angry. I understand those feelings. What do we do now? How do we handle these feelings?

First, I think it is important to own our feelings. There’s no point in pretending we don’t feel what we feel. We also don’t have to be bogged down by our feelings. Name them, feel them, allow them, then be ready to move on. “Even though I feel angry about the leadership of my country, I know I can choose whether or not to act on my feelings and I know I can choose where I focus my energy.”

Second, is there anything I can do to change what’s happening right now? Probably not. However, if there is anything you can do, do it. Speak the truth whenever you can; vote in upcoming elections and encourage friends and family to participate; post accurate information when you run across lies on social media or elsewhere; continue to believe the best whenever you can. Donate to positive causes when you can.

Third, do something positive every day. Send currents of beauty, truth, hope, laughter, decency, light, and love into the mass consciousness as much as possible. This could take the form of art such as drawing, painting, singing, writing music, etc… Or it could take the form of writing articles and sharing positive ideas and viewpoints.

Last, trust the process. I know. This is challenging these days. It seems the process has let us down and evil is being allowed to run amok. What’s happening, however, is that legal pushback has already started, and this will slow down and perhaps negate some of the hurtful policies being trotted out.

In my view, people are being given enough rope to hang themselves. Truth always wins out. Sometimes it takes longer than we wish it did, and we have to be patient.

Share your ideas in the comment section, if you wish. Here’s a piece of art I painted this morning, a way for me to put some positivity into the universal consciousness stream. I paint every day and post a lot of what I create on my Facebook page. It’s one way I do my best to keep good energy flowing out into the Universe. Let me know what you plan to do! I call this Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

Living in grace and ease,

Krysta