First, let the compassion and strong spiritual support continue to all who have been affected, not only by the recent Florida high school shooting, but from any previous incidents of this nature.
The extremes of human nature and action have often been acknowledged as an enigma, running from the most unselfish sacrificial loving acts to the senselessly insane violent ones against the innocent (and everything in-between).
There is a great need for us to focus on the counter fact of violence -- peace and spiritual love -- because this is what we want to draw into our experience, and this is what we desire to have manifested in our schools (and everywhere).
Rather than fighting in the ordinary way that entails a great deal of struggle and uncertainty, let us unite in a conscious, heart-felt focus on the spiritual fact of ever-present peace and brotherly love -- especially in the face of the opposite. Why and how can we do this?
We need to hold the feeling and focus of safety, peace, and love in order to bring that into manifestation. It is not a fight, but a fact. The difficult thing is to bring thought and heart into accord with this absolute reality -- but worth the endeavor of deeper understanding and discipline of reason and emotion because then we win, then we save lives.
That is why. But how can we do this kind of thinking or prayer when faced with devastation and grief unspeakable? The only way, is "the way" Christ Jesus taught and illustrated. We must begin prayer with God, and understanding of God as Good, as infinite, as all-powerful Light "in whom there is no darkness at all" (no evil at all). The only "way" to show forth this truth is to turn at least for a minute or so, to the Allness of God, Good, filling all space and time, excluding anything and everything unlike Himself. We must ask ourselves what we conceive as the nature and character of the one Creator? Love? All Love? Soul, all peaceful? Good, nothing but good? On this basis, we can safeguard ourselves, our children, and all the young people and brave teachers in our schools. This prayer is not restricted to our schools in the U.S., but its power goes out to embrace all the world. Truth operates universally, and affirming that adds spiritual power to the particular area of your concern. Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Whatever holds thought in line with unsolved love, receives directly the divine power." The most enlightened ones the world has ever known all teach this great power of unselfish love. Love enough to pray, and love enough to 'fight' the gun issue through understanding the ever presence of peace and safety so that it can manifest, protect, and disarm any perpetrators. Love governs all. Let us be a powerful protective force for our students and their teachers. Peace and safety are ever present on every campus and every room. Love governs all.
