This is a difficult moment in which to write. The September 11th bombings seemed to further destroy the hopes of humankind and the building of peace, as the gulf seems to widen daily between peoples.
Using violence, and killing people to prove that it is wrong to kill people, has also proven futile through all of the history of civilization. Throughout history, force has resulted in more and violence. Such response breeds defeatism, fear and despair.
I believe that humans, as transcendent creations of God, have within them the Spirit of God and the capacity to participate in, with, and through our Creator God. Our responsibility is not to lose our willingness to seek the truth and the boldness, firmness and humility to act in the truth. As we hold fast to this consciousness, we cannot despair.
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is therein.” It is our responsibility as stewards of our creator to act as directed by and through the nature and Spirit of our God.
Great ideas may often be expressed in simple words such as, “All humankind are brothers and sisters from the same Creator.” We are not here by chance, but as an individualization of God and in union with our Creator and each other. We each are unique and distinct, one of a kind. We lack nothing and are here to fulfill God’s special purpose through each of us for this generation. What a glorious, sacred, holy privilege and responsibility. Let us realize we are needed and important. The time of decision is now.
Del, Fall 2001
Del’s prayer in the morning and evening is one he has adapted from John Greenleaf Whittier:
Drop thy still dews of quietness
Till all my strivings cease;
Take from my soul
The strain and stress,
And let the Christ within express
The beauty of thy peace.
