Joseph Addison's Prose from Psalm 19

The Spacious Firmament on high, 
With all the blue Ethereal Sky,
And spangled Heavens, a Shining Frame,
Their great Original proclaim:
The unwearied Sun, from Day to Day,
Does his Creator's Power display,
And publishes to every Land
The work of an Almighty Hand.
Soon as the Evening Shades prevail,
The moon takes up the Wondrous Tale,
And nightly to the listening Earth
Repeats the Story of her Birth:
Whilst all the Stars that round her burn,
And all the Planets, in their turn,
Confirm the Tidings and they roll,
And spread the Truth from Pole to Pole.
What though, in solemn Silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial Ball?
What tho' no real Voice nor Sound
Amid their radiant Orbs be found?
In Reason's Ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious Voice,
For ever singing, as they shine,
"The hand that made us is Divine."

We have to heal our trauma. On a personal level and outwardly as a collective, and as a world. We have to heal our trauma because we don’t want to recreate it again. We want to create better out of the experience of it. Like a birthing. Painful and powerful, but out of that pain a miraculous new creation arrives.

I do have a deep concern right now about our ability to maintain our free speech. Although Twitter just had a breakthrough opening it’s platform back up to everyone, Facebook and others have gotten worse. And, from what I’ve seen, people have gotten hurt by social media platforms deliberately adjusting the truth by keeping out certain messages that may have saved people. It’s becoming clearer every day. A very cruel truth.

We’re going to need healers because we’re going to need to heal from trauma.

A friend wrote about his concern for the nature of free speech. He says that things are playing out like the movie 1984. And he is a strong advocate for standing up and strongly letting authority know who pays their bills and who is in charge. Unfortunately, we have people in the world who think it is better to trust what they are being told and to just follow orders.

Looking back over the past couple years, I know it is becoming clear that blind trust is no longer an option. Too many healthy people have been lost to us immediately following getting something injected into them. China, who has been 90% vaccinated, is in a serious strange crisis right now. I know we are worn out and tired, but it’s crunch time and we have to use our critical thinking, our logic, our discernment and then our voices, and we have to get loud!

My friend believes that “When free speech no longer exists, when truth is fiction; and reality locked away, and only the narrative of the war machine moves onward; those who mean well, who fight for social justice, will be so lost and misguided by the very nature of their upbringing in a world that has erased all inconvenient truths; that society as we know it, and the world as we know it will cease to exist. They will cheer for war while redefining social norms to fit an ever more extreme agenda that only further divides and weakens their collective hand; and we will be trapped, then, in an inescapable dystopian nightmare of greed, corruption, and death.

We are sliding into this reality even now, and we must band together as one people; from all sides of the manufactured division that weakens us and controls us, and seek to fight back against these terrible designs. We are but one generation away, from losing our voice, our freedoms, and worst of all; our perspectives. Fight.”