Serbian saying: “In war the politicians give ammunition, the rich give the food and the poor give their children… When the war is over the politicians get back the leftover ammunition, the rich grow more food and the poor search for the graves of their children.”

WORDS
W     o             R                d                         S
are all pretty meaningless
even if they are
ACTION WORDS
until they are
LIVING WORDS
THE WORLD IS MADE UP OF DEAD ENDS
DESOLATE
WAR TORN PLACES
(and that’s not even talking about the wars that are being waged in ourselves)

It reminds me of the words of the poet,

Warsan Shire

For the World’s sake
For your sake
(Literally) For God’s sake
we’ve got to Caring Catalyst UP
not Someday
(which can never be found on anyone’s Calendar)
but TODAY
IT’S time to BE
what the World needs
right where you are at
and to everyone you touch.        .         .

Are you Perfect?

I am.

Pristine. Unadulterated. Pure. Faultless–ME!

Perfectly IMPERFECT!

You?

The Teacher Knows.

The story goes, not so Once-Upon-A-Time, but currently, when a Rabbi, The Teacher, prayed daily that God would make a perfect world in which there would never be any hatred, jealously, pain or problems.

Well, wouldn’t you know, one night, God appeared to the Rabbi, The Teacher in a dream and took him on a wonderful tour of any absolutely, magnificently uncorruptable World.

P E R F E C T

The Rabbi, The Teacher, saw his house, his synagogue, his little town. Lions and lambs were actually laying down together.

P E A C E F U L

Still, this Rabbi, The Teacher was troubled. Something, something was terribly absent…MISSING!

“Where am in in this Perfect World,” the Rabbi, The Teacher asked, wanted…needed to know?

God offered the most apologetic answer, ever: “This is a perfect world you requested. You must understand that you are NOT PERFECT, so you cannot be included.”

We are NEVER just one thing in Life, are we?

We are all so very PLURAL and never so SINGULAR.

But one thing, one thing through all of these Personas, through all these changes, through all our ages, our comings/goings, stayings/leavings, pasts/presents/futures remains the same, doesn’t it?

We–everyone one of us–are undeniably, immaculately, impeccably, PERFECTLY IMPERFECT.

It helps, doesn’t it, with the WHY’S, the HOW-COME’S, the WHAT-FOR’S?

Expecting the world, this world of August 20, 2014 to treat us fairly because we are nice, caring, compassionate, PERFECTLY IMPERFECT People is like expecting a Bull not to gore us just because we are vegetarians.

Are you Perfect?

I am.

So are you.

We, we are PERFECTLY IMPERFECT.

Are you more of an Adjective, a Noun or a Verb?

If you ask what the World needs now, the old Jackie DeShannon song from the 60’s, would tell you,

L O V E.

Do you agree? I mean who in their right or even wrong mind wouldn’t agree, right?

Uhhhh, well…maybe me.

The world doesn’t need Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, Empathy, Sympathy, or Acceptance.

They’re great thoughts.

Easy to say and spell words.

The World needs, not adjectives or more nouns, but VERBS.

Why do a Random Act of Kindness when you can do two?

Why write or read a blog when you can be what one can never quite capture or explain?

Why talk of Compassion when you can DO or BE Compassion.

SHOW WHAT CAN’T BE SAID BUT SO MUCH NEEDS TO BE EXPERIENCED. . . .

Are you more of an Adjective?

Are you more of an Noun?

Pssssst: Here’s the good new about being a Verb:

It most likely will be really easy on your wallet but it’s going to cost you your time, your creativity, your patience and maybe some of your peace of mind.

But, but it’s going to pay what no 401K, paycheck, or award ceremony could ever guarantee or remit.

Can you pay THAT price?

BE A VERB!

You’re all about action anyway.

HEY, if your Heart doesn’t skip a beat. . .why should you?