David Foss: How do we heal our nation’s many divisions?
The United States of America? It seems to be “The Divided States of America.” There is division everywhere you look. Democrats against Republicans; liberals against conservatives; black against white; rich against poor; religious against each other. It is a king of collective madness!
The division is the one within ourselves. We are failing to embrace our own true nature, which is, of course, spiritual.
We have lost our “roots in the spirit,” to quote C.G. Jung, “If the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption.” Imagine what could be accomplished if we could think this in our minds and feel this in our hearts!
Unfortunately, we do not think or feel this way. We are, metaphorically, rats in a race to our own destruction.
God’s grace will ultimately descend upon us. Then, I believe, everyone will understand his own mistakes.
David Foss, Modesto
This story was originally published January 5, 2015 at 11:19 AM with the headline "David Foss: How do we heal our nation’s many divisions?."