The power of our collective consciousness

Last night I watched the Interdenominational memorial service for those who lost their lives in the tragedy that occurred in Sandyhook in Connecticut and I was filled with such hope. Such love. To have many different religions share the same stage essentially sharing the same story. The belief in a higher power. Faith in the One Source. Reverence of all that we may not see nor understand but know is there was powerful beyond words.

It’s a shame that we allow different beliefs, religions, cultures, races to blind us from accepting we are all one, bond by a common thread until something tragic occurs linking us back to that common source. It’s a shame that so many children, innocent children, had to die in order for us to feel that common thread weaving through our hearts all around the world. But it happened and we got to experience the sharing of grief and disbelief that one human being could cause such pain. But was it one human being or was it our collective consciousness that led to this tragic event?

As President Obama said yesterday we have a collective responsibility to do a better job in caring for and raising our children to have compassion, love and a sense of belonging in this world so they will not snap one day and kill the innocence left in our world. We have a collective responsibility to preserve our communities by raising children who are givers to society rather than takers.

No matter where we come from. No matter how much wealth we may have. No matter what our religious beliefs are. Nor the colour of our skin. When we die we die the same way. Our spirits, our souls leave our physical bodies and go back to where we originated - wherever it may be. And the physical facade of our essence selves is stripped away and becomes nothing but a shell of what we truly are.

So at the end of the day does it make sense for us to judge, to criticize, to ostracize in order to make ourselves feel more superior to someone or something that is only temporary? For when we strip away all that is physical what remains is an essence, a spirit, a soul that has no boundaries, no definitions, and no form. What we are left with is an infinite existence full of love, light and compassion. And there is no distinction between any of us because we once again become a part of the whole. The One Source, God, Yahweh, Buddha, whatever name we chose to have faith in. To believe in.

Today my island home, Bermuda, will go to the polls to vote for our next Governing party. What we all must do is vote from our hearts and souls not from a place of coercion, divisiveness nor meanspiritness. We must vote for the party we believe has the best interests of our country, our children, and our future. The party that will help to bring us together as a community to allow us to remember we are raising the next generation and we want them to be raised with compassion, love and a sense of belonging so we can stop destroying our human race and the place we call home, this beautiful planet we are inhabitating called Earth.

May we go out today with love in our hearts, light in our eyes and compassion filling our souls to be the change we want to see. In peace, love and light, I pray. Amen.