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Fiḍál (Grace), 13 Mashíyyat (Will) 175 B.E. - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 "Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements." Baha'u'llah3 The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" prompt for DAY 1758 What makes you anxious? When can anxiety become a dilemma? And can anxiety be considered a good thing in some instances? Anxiety What makes me anxious? Nothing much anymore. I become less and less anxious about everything as I grow wiser and place every situation in God's hands. There are still certain things that cause me some anxiety, such as filling out forms. I don't like to fill out forms because some of the questions aren't clear or rather as clear as I'd like them to be. In addition, I'm a baby boomer and, I don't necessarily trust the government. This comes from things, I know, the government did when I was a child. One of the things I know that was encouraged and they did, was to sterilize people born with mental disabilities; this happened to a neighbor girl in Blackwell, Oklahoma. When can anxiety become a dilemma? When it becomes an anxiety attack. I've had several of these in the past. Most of them occurred right after my mother died, so I think they might have had something to do with the grieving process. The only one that wasn't brought on by the grieving process, was instigated when I missed one of my meds. My solution for anxiety attacks is to slow my breather by repeating or reading a prayer aloud. After that I focus on something that calms me, usually a photo with trees and flowers in it. Can anxiety be considered a good thing in some instances? Anxiety is good when it causes a person to take action. The action can be anything that helps ones fellow human beings. Exercise it good, but it only helps the individual, while writing a letter, calling an elected official about an injustice, or taking food or clothing to a neighbor or someone else in need helps humanity. We need to focus on the needs of this era of civilization rather than ourselves. The "Blogging Circle of Friends " prompt for DAY 2151 Use these words in your blog entry: peacebuilding, beauty, car, watch, radiance, brightness, splendour, effulgence, illumination. A Prayer for Humanity O Thou, Beauty of the Almighty rain Your radiance upon those engaged in peacebuilding. O Thou, Splendour of the All-Knowing watch over and protect those shining the illumination of justice across the Earth. O Thou, Effulgence of the All-Wise shed the brightness of your blessings upon those steering the car of unity across the planet. Footnotes |
Fiḍál (Grace), 13 Mashíyyat (Will) 175 B.E. - Tuesday, October 9, 2018
A week from today is World Food Day . What is your favorite food? What about when you were a child? Feel free to share a recipe, and if you do, make sure to post it into "Invalid Item" as well. . Hunger eats at the roots of modern civilization. Hunger gnaws at the spirit of hope that shines from the soul of every human being. Some of the causes of hunger are war, drought, water shortages, destruction of farmland, global warming, etc. Cooperation between nations is the only way to alleviate hunger worldwide. One nation cannot do it on its own. One nation cannot alleviate the hunger within its own borders, because the cause of hunger is global, and global problems cannot be eliminated by a single nation. To eliminate a global problem take unified action from every nation and kingdom on the planet. Starvation Calls4 Starvation calls! Calls this generation, offers death's emancipation in answer to famine's affliction in Africa. Starvation calls Earth's sovereign nations to come to the aid of Africa, and help humanity's womb: to feed the prey of hunger. Africa summons humanity. In somber tones the hungry call: "STOP starvation! Help mother Africa." In the years since I wrote that poem, hunger has gotten worse. We now have people fleeing war, who are on the verge of starvation. We have governments who are more worried about the security of their own borders than they are about the starving millions, some of whom are their own citizens. We have politicians who care more about their own income, or their personal interpretation of their chosen religion than they do about the command to "love thy neighbor". Have no intention of rewriting that poem. Instead, because it would change the meaning and the emotion of the poem. I will consider writing another poem about hunger, which widens the scope of the problem. Lambert Wilson, a French actor, says “I believe in a Zero Hunger world if we all work together” He is right, we can solve the hunger problem, if we all work together. Footnotes |