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In the early 2010’s, I saw a History Channel series about how fragile our civilization is that a worldwide epidemic flu outbreak that incapacitated half of each industry’s workforce, including food stores and first responders could easily bring down our society completely, and then it showed how we would begin to come back up through necessity.
I have the history from my own parents living their teens and early married farm life during the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and World War II to tell me that things can appear grim and even hopeless, but one can come through them stronger.
For me, I look at AI, social media’s effect on children, the rollback of renewable energy projects, world health initiatives, growing landfills, and national debt, along with an aging population and a world that still seems far from understanding that we must work together or fall, and if I allowed a negative side of myself to prevail, I wouldn’t be able to stand up. However, like the young German soldier in All Quiet on the Western Front, I answer that “I must believe in God, because of all of this.”
I feel we are definitely going through a time of awakening, a time of development; not only in a worldly sense but definitely in a spiritual one. I also see defined contrast between spiritual growth and the continued lack of consciousness in our surroundings. It is so uplifting to see growth and discouraging to see the opposite of that. Since we need to opposition of all things, I believe I have so much to learn on how to reconcile and manage the positive and the negative.
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