Part of the lyrics to a song by Ben Harper are: “With these hands I can change the world”.
This invocation is open to all of us. As individuals, we have much more capability than we allow ourselves to have. Only our fears keep us powerless.
Last Friday, while meditating at the Peace Fire, a vision came to me to ask the Premier of Tasmania to bring all 25 parliamentarians outside on the day of the Parliament House Vigil (August 19) and make a circle of joined hands. It would be seen by the public as a simple, yet powerful symbolic gesture that this government of Labor, Liberal and Green politicians are committed to working together with dignity to resolve Tasmania’s forestry issue.
So….. I sent off an email to all our state parliamentarians requesting this act.
Well, within my circle of friends all fear broke out. There was even a call from Sydney wondering if I had gone crazy. The media would make me out to be a complete fool, all my integrity would be put into question and the success of the Vigil itself would be placed in jeopardy.
All this because of a circle of politicians holding hands?
My response?
Rumi writes:
“Start a hugh, foolish, project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
If we don’t have vision after vision in how to create a better world — a world different than the present reality — than we might as well go back to sleep.
Our unfaithfulness to love is destructive.
Visions are fragile. They exist when one believes in their existence and disappear when there is fear.
When Martin Luther King had his dream was he worried how the media or politicians of the day might ridicule him?
Of the two, which is more preposterous: Black people being allowed to sit at the front of the bus, or twenty five elected parliamentarians holding hands?
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