Get In The Goodness Boat
And see the world as not broken.
I sat on an exercise bike at the gym and noticed that the right pedal was missing, so I moved to the one on its right. Next, a friend sat down on that bike, noticed it was broken, and chose another bike.
Then Del sat down on that bike and started peddling. The bike wasn’t broken for him.
A few days later, I saw a woman sitting on the broken bike pedaling a way. It wasn’t broken for her either.
The world appears to be broken.
It’s so bad I don’t want to hear any side of it. I don’t want to hear the arguments, people claiming to be right, while others claim they are wrong. It’s absolutely horrible.
The only people who might enjoy it are the people thinking either that they can fix it, or break it some more.
It’s the same thing either way.
We have to do something different because, if you are reading this, you are sick of it, too.
We have to start seeing the world as not broken.
It reminds me of Noah and the flood. He built a boat to escape.
We have to build a boat, too.
We have to build a boat that we all get into and out of these rising waters of human fighting and fixing.
Let’s go back to the bike. It doesn’t matter what scenario you choose about why I saw a broken bike, and Del did not, it is always going to be about perception.
It could be that I was blind to the fact that it wasn’t broken because my point of view about the gym made me see a poorly maintained bike.
I saw what I believed.
Or maybe some other dimensions and realities shifted, revealing the unbroken bike.
I had to have that perception to make this a possibility, too. (And yes, I have that perception.)
So let’s build a boat called Good.
In that boat, we all believe that unbreakable, omnipresent Good is the only power.
Let’s not let our human viewpoint influence the making of this boat. We’ll simply agree that Good is the only power and stick with it.
We won’t get out and ride the waves of despair, fear, or curiosity about evil.
We won’t let the temptation to think we can fix something (it’s not broken, remember) pull us off the boat.
If, by chance, one of us gets pulled in, falls in, or gives up, we reach out and pull them back on the boat.
It doesn’t matter if we are not sure this is possible. Doesn’t matter what we call the power of Good. Doesn’t matter if we don’t see how this will help.
We have to stick together—no divisions, no judgment. We choose and stay with the perception, point of view, state of mind, and awareness that Good Is The Only Power.
We have to give up what we think is best and let Good re-adjust what we perceive.
Why? Because, even if Good isn’t the only power, choosing that perception makes it so. Not the man in the sky god, the intelligent force that is behind the cosmos that is only Good.
What we perceive to be reality is what we experience.
I don’t say this to make it true. It is true. Quantum physics gives us a good guideline as to why this is true.
What do we lose by choosing the perception of an unbreakable, infinite Good? Nothing. We have everything to lose if we don’t.
It isn’t hiding our heads in the sand and not doing something about the injustices we encounter.
It is simply doing it all from the boat of Goodness.
Noah rode out the waves, and they eventually receded. He trusted in that provision.
Riding in the boat of Goodness, we can survive the rising flood waters, but we can do more than that. We can start doing something to stop the flood.
We acknowledge global warming and insist that something be done, even if it rocks our personal boat for a while.
We stop supporting any idea that divides people based on their nationality, religious beliefs, or food-eating habits.
We don’t build walls to separate. We take down the walls of ignorance and build the bridge of understanding.
We stop seeing ourselves as just human beings and instead see the spiritual essence of ourselves and others.
The world doesn’t need healing.
What needs to be healed is what we see, how we act, what we say, and what we do.
Let’s start with the man in the mirror. Then, together, we can lift more people into the boat while pulling the plug on the rising waters.
We can be the tipping point towards only Good.
So get in the boat of Goodness. The world is not broken.