Mr. Washington was talking about Big Love, not I'll-love-you-if love.
Usually when I hear this I think of traffickers, the men and women who enslave 27 millions girls around the world and sell their bodies in the sex industry. Can I love these soul-less seeming men and women who take young girls (and boys) lives so horribly?
Most days I can. I can love these soul stealers because their souls were stolen at some point or they wouldn't do what they do. (I use Ho'oponopono a Hawaiian shamanic practice that I learned through Jean Houston and Peggy Rubin to energetically hold traffickers in my heart and hands while asking their forgiveness for my negligence, ignorance and all ways that I have contributed to the shadow they carry that is connected to me.)
Yes, it would be different if one of these people actually sat down to talk with me. Could I hold space for this person, take the time and prove I am trustworthy? I hope so and I don't know. Could I love them without my own agenda if they continued their ways?
"If you love it enough, anything will talk to you."
Can I love politicians enough and imagine them talking with me? I'm not talking about 30 second sound bites on tv or slightly longer interviews on FOX or MSNBC. I don't want to see any more come-to-Jesus, God-forgave-me pop culture interviews in which these individuals say they've changed then it's back to business as usual.
Imagine them really talking to us, with us, coming clean, sharing their motivation for getting into politics to begin with then selling out to greed, power, the machine. Can we make time, hold space for discussions of this Nature? Wall Street and the powers that be might cry, "No! Time is up. There are votes to cast, sides to take, deals to do, money to make."
If we don't have time to really look at how we be, mankind's time may be nearing "up."
"If you love it enough, anything will talk to you."
Do I have time for Monsanto? Can I love this business with its hands all over our food, trying to control seed and thus us and our health? Can I love this business that hides behind a mask of saying they're for the American farmer? That's a big one and yet just last week I used Ho'oponopono in relation to Monsanto. I have ignored for most of my life how my food is grown. My ignorance is connected in the greater web to Monsanto's ignoring on a deeper level the long term ramifications of their money-making endeavors using genetic modification, toxic chemicals and such.
What might Booker T. Washington, a planter, scientist, inventor and artist himself, say to us about Monsanto? I imagine his encouraging us to hold these entities lovingly as this peanut farmer does his plant in the Colquitt, Georgia mural "Spirit Farmer" by Winnipeg artist Charlie Johnston.
I imagine him saying, "If you love it enough, anything will talk to you."
-Dawn, The Good News Muse, 6 April 2015
1. There are many sites regarding the shamanic prayer/healing/forgiveness practice of Ho'oponopono. Please check them out as I've linked the story above to only one.
2. And learn more about Monsanto here
3. Here's more also on Colquitt's amazing murals.
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