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Death

Destruction

Doomsday arrived

Mourning

Madness

Masochistic pride

Fear

Fallacy

Fleeting unity

Self

Silence

Stifled democracy

I wonder why it takes tragedy to bring people together here in the United States. And even then, tragedy does not always lead to unity, at least not to the extent you’d expect. Society’s selfish way of life, the consequence of technology and all the *wonderful* things that have been created over time, tends to get in the way of societal harmony.

Imagine for a moment our love of space… dreams of the bigger home, the big yard, the storage areas, the shed, the attic, the extra-roomy SUV. While we define space as a luxury, it truly is a safety feature for our minds, a barrier from the outside world. The more space we have surrounding us, the harder it is for anyone to infiltrate or break through, and so we experience a feeling of security.

Of course space also gives us pleasure because it’s more space to fill. To fill with all the goodies that come along with our culture, material goods that clutter our minds with anxieties and perpetuate our world of wants. Ah yes, the good ol’ US of A.

(http://www.americanframe.com/gallery/artgallery/itemthumbnails/AS0002449.jpg... artwork entitled "Liberty's Children"; our prompt for Sacred Writing today)