Can We?

I was talking to a friend on the phone today.
She was relating a story involving her youngest son, a hot frying pan, burnt fingers and a bad word. It is funny how we hone in on the bad word and the rest fades away.
Scenarios flood my mind from the past.
Where sins were addressed.
Mistakes and errors revealed, reviled and duly repented of.
My particular favorite:
Bad words washed out with soap.
Lies like wise.

How often were the actions addressed: and the heart left abandoned.

A person never acts without his heart.

We can't separate who we are from what we do.

We think....Bad people do bad things.

Right?

No matter what you say.....
This is what we believe.

We also say..bad things happen to good people....

They are two completely different worlds of thought.

Like...bad people who do bad things are actively pursuing the good ones
and good people are the ones that have those bad people doing bad things to them.

Good people never do bad things to others....
They would then be bad people.....

So...do good people live around other good people?
Is there some sort of Utopian club that exists....in some sort of Utopian neighborhood...
with Utopian pets who never dig in other good people's gardens...because that would be a bad thing happening to a good person...and there are no bad people around to do those things....soooooo

Hmmmmm.

And what are bad things anyways.
Those bad things that happen to good people?
Would that be...
Car crashes?
House fires?
Or maybe....
Robbery?
Rape?
Assault?
Murder?

And are the people responsible for these actions bad....or did bad things happen to good people say...weeks, months or years before..so that now a good person is doing something bad...

hmmmmmm.

What about sickness and disease?

Cancer.
bad thing.
Friend Mike.
Good man....good friend

ALS.
bad thing
Friend Stephen.
Good man...amazing father/husband/friend

Fibromyalgia
Chronic Fatigue.
Bad things
Kelly.
Awesome woman...great friend.

What about money?

Lots of bad things happen with and without money.
Check out the line at your local food-bank...tavern....casino..movie theatre
Check out your local malls.
Check out the credit counseling services online...or bankruptcy info websites.
Check your local eating establishments for emaciated starving children, oops right..that's Africa...Central America
Walk the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver....or pick your city.
Watch your Pastor friend struggle to make ends meet...while his wife works full time and runs the Sunday School...while working Sunday afternoons at her regular job.

Debt.
Bankruptcy.

Bad things.

Good people?
Bad people?

Shit.

The new racism...is not one born of color or nationality.

It is born of wealth...and the lack there-of.

The separation is getting wider and wider.
Differentiation.
Segregation.
No need for signs saying: "poor not welcome"....the prices prohibit by themselves.
Haves and Have Nots.
Successful...and Not.
Self made....both ways?

Right and wrong.

Good and bad.

Damn.

You know...you write.... you listen...you bleed...you wonder out loud.

Is anyone listening?

Does anyone care?

What is this thing that we have become?

What do we want?
What is the deal?

We want to live.

Real.
Raw.

Intimate.

Questioning.

Is this working?

There are an awful lot of people out there who are sporting burned fingers and speaking bad words. Full of pain and anger. Possessing hearts and souls. I don't think a cake of Ivory soap for all it's 99% pure qualities will do the trick.

More than marriages are breaking up in todays cultural chaos.

The ability to have intimate, connected...sharing...common..community is fading like perfume on the wind. We are disconnecting from each other at a rapid rate. It has been increasing..this decay...eroding at the framework of our world....and our lives.

Ah...the great deception.
Separation.
Preservation.
Death.

Ah the greatest truth.
Communion.
Unity.
Life.

can we do it?
reverse the trend?
stop the isolating paralysis?
come together?
rescue?
nourish?
touch?
share?

live?

love?

can we?