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“Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest
it.” ― African proverb
also allow Love to work His ways within Why? A world that is run by cruelty,
us. If we can recreate real justice, genuinely bloodshed, greed, wars, etc. will soon run
beneficial governance, and actual good itself to death and complete destruction.
plans for the people of Africa to thrive and But this can change if we all go back to the
succeed. If only we believe - then we can. reason why we were created and placed on
I do not think that anyone needs to be this earth, which I believe strongly is not for
reminded that we have enough hate in our violence and destruction.
world already. We have enough of those
who will stop at nothing to destroy the There are those who claim to love or who
environment just so they can put more money express their love for nature by doing forest
in their already overflowing pockets. We conservation or loving on their dogs and
have enough jealousy, envy, violence, enough other pets, but the same people don’t mind
divorces, enough dysfunctional families, and bringing contaminated food, disease-infested
broken political systems that give awards to clothes, and killer vaccines to Africa or to
criminals and then the rotten justice systems other places they call developing countries.
that incarcerate innocent victims of overfed Such love for nature and disdain for
elites. humanity can only be called foolishness and
wickedness. It’s just a veil hiding the real
We have enough of everything that is wrong heart. Dogs and trees don’t speak but humans
in our world and, quite frankly, we need can and will, and there lies the difference.
a break from the norm, which has been Within every one of us is the ability to
instituted by the greed and pride of men. We love or hate. Even Hitler and some of the
need to return to the basis of brotherhood most vicious and blood-thirsty dictators of
and that basis is called love. Love is the the world loved someone, either a family
foundation of all created things, for out of the member or whoever else. So, that our world
fullness of the life of the Eternal One, we all is in such a mess, is not because humans
live, move, and have our beings. cannot love, but because our choices of what
It’s about time we let love lead us into all to extend love to are directly connected
goodness and true prosperity. True prosperity to our greed, ego, pride, and a benefactor
that does not come from the oppression, syndrome. Consider the so-called NGOs and
manipulation, and subjugation of others but philanthropists who in the name of love and
through letting go of pride, relinquishing compassion for the “poor Africans”, bring
selfishness, walking away from greed, into Africa a million dollars worth of aid but
shunning violence, and race supremacy. take out one hundred million dollars worth of
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