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G-Pop’s five-year-old son came strolling over carrying a dirty, beat-up baby blanket with frayed edges, which had been the source of great comfort and solace to the little chap for years.
He handed it to G-Pop and said, “Fix it.”
The blanket did need some help.
The ends were torn and worn from being drug on the ground and any memory of the original color had faded beneath a cloud of general “dirty.”
G-Pop’s son even brought along the family sewing kit to aid in the repair. G-Pop peered at the blanket and then down into the hopeful eyes of his child.
“I don’t need the sewing kit. It won’t help. What I need is a pair of scissors.”
The five-year-old squinted. “Why?”
Why indeed?
G-Pop realized that the ony way to fix the blanket was to carefully take the scissors and meticulously trim off the ripped regions on the perimeter. They could not be fixed. They would never be woven into the one piece of cloth. They were gone.
They were needfully gone. A new border needed to be negotiated. Otherwise, the blanket was worthless.
G-Pop was thinking about that today as he was mulling over the situation in our country.
We are a tattered patchwork, and our ends are frayed. Attempts to sew things together or make them right are useless because the substance to stitch is just not there.
Here’s the truth: No matter how honorable foolish people are in pursuing their goals, the end result is still foolishness.
No matter how many flags are waved for the glory of a cause, if that idea is unrighteous, unfair and bigoted, it needs to cease to exist. It is frayed; it is torn. And it will continue to tear into the other fabric if we allow it to blow in the wind.
It is time for America to bring its security blanket to the forefront, and for us–as “we, the people”–to take scissors and cut away the nonsense.
After all, some things are wrong because God and Mother Nature got together and decided they were wrong. Yes, Science and the Divine often have meetings, and generate or terminate parts of the Earth.
So grab your scissors, starting with your own life, setting an example for those around you, and:
1. Trim back opinions.
Opinions are stop-offs on our way to the truth. To spend too much time touting them is to delay the arrival of common sense.
2. Clip the need to debate.
If the goal of a debate is to find out what is really workable, then perhaps it has merit. If it is to change the minds of those around us by using words, statistics and intimidation, it is fruitless. The time we spend debating could be put to better use by creating.
3. Snip the separations.
If America is a melting pot, let it melt. And while you’re at it, jump in the pan. A stew should be so well-cooked that people have to ask you what kind of concoction it is instead of looking inside and noting a predominance of chicken.
Thus, America. We shouldn’t be identified as white, black, Hispanic, cultural, ethnic, Anglo-Saxon, Asian, male or female.
The blend should be complete.
If you are saying anything before “American” it is contentious, be it African, Asian, Mexican, white or female. Just “American” will do fine.
The tapestry of our country is frayed. The extreme ends cannot be repaired. We must trim them away, allowing a new edge to our common understanding.
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