Where is your treasure?

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19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~ Matthew 6: 19-21 (NIV)

33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~ Luke 12: 33-34 (NIV)

These are the words of Christ, spoken through the man Jesus from the synoptic gospels of Matthew and Luke. As you can tell, what these two guys heard was not the same but was truly synoptic, meaning they came from a similar point of view.

What gets to me is the sameness of verses 21 and 34 – a statement that must have been very impactful on Jesus’ audience. A statement that seems to have almost no significance today, except in its powerful truth.

I listen to National Public Radio (NPR) in the car. Sometimes I listen to Rush Limbaugh in my feeble attempt to understand, but I usually can’t make it through 15 minutes before feeling the need to a) punch his lights out for good and/or b) puke. To be fair, NPR makes me nauseous too. Still, I get the idea that NPR commentators are at least trying to be honest in our restrictive public atmosphere.

But in all my listening, I almost never hear any honesty about our national “treasure” no matter which “side” is blathering on. Even Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist and liberal activist – even he doesn’t honestly address the situation regarding our national treasure. Once in a blue moon a caller (usually female) asks “the question” about how we are spending our national treasure, but the question, since it is not allowed to be asked in our national debate, is unanswered by the panelists, shrugged off by the host or the show suddenly needs to go to a break. Have you noticed?

We live in concentric layers of consciousness. We have our individual level of consciousness and as individuals we are responsible for what goes in and what comes out. Beyond our individual consciousness lies the consciousness of the group with which we identify, such as family, race, religion, nationality…and some humans, like Jesus of Nazareth, like St. Francis or Mother Theresa, like Gandhi – have grown their identification to include the entire family of humanity and indeed, the whole of Creation. This growth of identity is our work and our goal as individuals and as the body of Christ.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The ultimate treasure has nothing at all to do with money – it’s the “pearl of great price” also known as the “peace that passeth understanding.” It’s an underlying joy and an unshakeable inner knowing that although waves are crashing, the ocean lies serene beneath. However, in these two verses the Greek word translated as “treasure” is thesaurizo, meaning accumulated riches or stored-up wealth. Thus, at least in these verses Jesus was talking about money as a manifestation of personal will. In other words, where you stick your cash reveals what your heart values most.

Where do you stick your cash? What do you treasure? Where is your heart?

Could your answers be why you feel so heartsick?

As a nation, what are we doing with our accumulated riches? Where is our stored-up wealth?

This graphic[*] of U.S. spending is from 2011. It looks to me like the “right to life” United States values WAR (also known as killing people) more than anything else. This graphic says nothing about the accumulated treasure being spent on the drug wars and the wars against almost anything you can name, including, for God’s sake, the gentle half of the population – women.

WAR is the elephant in the room that is not allowed to be discussed or questioned ~ even by Paul Krugman, liberal extraordinaire, on National Public Radio.

Note how little by comparison we spend on what we loudly proclaim that we do value: HEALTH and HUMAN Services. EDUCATION. Transportation. ENVIRONMENTal Protection. JUSTICE.

We are a heartsick nation for obvious reasons.

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

And don’t get me started on the accumulated riches and stored-up wealth trickling down like a golden shower from our beloved “job creators.”

 

 

[*] Federal discretionary spending (from American Friends Service Committee)

Christmas Present

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A splendid diversity of holy-day greetings to all y’all!

For your Christmas present I give you a glimpse of Christmas past and a prayer for Christmas future. This is an excerpt from my book “I Am Liberty, One Mind’s Journey through Ascension,” written ten years ago at Christmas 2001. My 24-year marriage was over and our living arrangement (for the sake of finances) discarded . My shattered family was emotionally raw and fragile.  

My writing (like my life) is an ongoing exchange with God/Self. God’s voice, as it comes to me, appears in italics. My Christmas prayers from 2001 have since been answered in astounding ways beyond my wildest imaginings, and I have a wild imagination!  My life today is filled with grace and so blessed…fulfilled. Stay tuned, because the breathtaking synchronicity of how my prayers were answered is the subject (and more) of my next book, “One Becomes One.” 

We celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace is a few days. Will yours be an orgy of consumerism? Have you been suckered once again by the hype and by selfish desires? It’s okay, because you can choose once again, deciding to embrace your own Christ nature and live as he would have us live.

Wonderful God of the Universe, please awaken each heart to embrace a new “ism” this  Christmas and for all time and seasons: compassionism. Help us to truly honor the Prince of Peace by demonstrating the compassionate peace that longs to shine in every heart. Help us and guide us to pay love forward, to give of our time, talents and treasure to the “least of these,” the poor and hungry and homeless, the sick and diseased and hurting, the disenfranchised and marginalized and labelled….Dear God, awaken us to our interdependent oneness with each other, with the Earth and with You.     Amen. 

God bless us, every one. God bless YOU!  ~ Libby

He moved out and we bought a Christmas tree anyway

Yep, he did it. He didn’t wait until I have a job. How is that going to work? He rented an apartment and moved out last Tuesday. He didn’t take much stuff, but we don’t have much extra to be taken. The kids decorated a little Christmas tree for him as a gift and we bought a lovely fir tree from North Carolina for home. A local news crew was taking pictures at the Christmas tree lot and little Isaac’s picture with his Christmas tree made it into the local newspaper.

It’s been over a week now since he left. Today is December 6. The first couple of days were strange and hollow and dark. I didn’t like that place at all. It is a place of grief and mourning for what has been and what will not be. But it is a place of illusion, because now comprises neither what has been nor what will be. In this now, I declare that the ending of this relationship has no power over me. And that will be true until it is not, eh God?

You know waves of mourning will come, little one. There are still triggers in your consciousness, mostly connected to our children. But know this, beloved Liberty, that your desires are so close to fulfillment, you are so near to Perpetual Consciousness…oh, my darling child, if you could but see all that I know for you.

It’s hard right now to believe anything great and wonderful is coming, You know? Yes, that sums up My difficulty quite well. And yet, I do know it. You know, God, that You leave few signposts letting us know where we’re going in Spirit entertain the thought that perhaps you don’t see all the signs well, okay. No argument. You know how much I desire that the perfect publisher pick up this manuscript submission and know that she knows this is You. Waiting sucks and I’m tired of it. That’s the plain truth. Continue on, beloved of Mine, for instantaneous manifestation comes and there You go again, interrupting with a great and wonderful stuff that I KNOW is on the tip of my experience, like a word on the tip of my tongue.

This experience of my marriage relationship breaking: this is the harbinger of the greatness and wonder of Christ manifesting fully in me, through me, as me. I have to know that YOU are my Source, my Abundance, my all and everything in my experience. I still had some dependence on marriage, on sameness and on physical security. These are illusions to be shattered, so You did. Thanks a lot. Really, thank You. This is liberating, and I’m for that. I am that. You said it. The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Within us. As us. My love for You knows no limit. It grows as I lift it to You, praising You, loving You, faithfully waiting on You. That was a “One Voice” revelation, lovely one. Oh! Oh! Thank You! I feel warmth, a liquid vibration flowing over me. The tone it makes lifts me in His Love.

I’m supposed to go and sign the divorce documents tomorrow. If I did not know in my heart that what is happening is good, if I did not know what God is up to in all of this, my heart would be breaking. And it is, in a way, but what is real cannot be threatened. Why is it I feel so threatened?

Knowing that my Source is You, Wonderful God, I ask for Your abundance to rain down on me and my family. It is clear that our marriage is over, God. Please bless Gilbert beyond what he can ask, think or imagine. My family requires income from a new and wonderful Source. You have given me a dream, a desire deep in my heart, to publish the words You have given to me in our book. I ask that our book be published, and that this be the avenue for Your abundant blessings to flow to and through me. The right and perfect publisher is right now calling me (or e-mailing me or sending me a contract and a check by overnight mail). Confirm Your plan for me by making this so. The abundance that flows through the publishing and distribution of our book will enable me to bless my children, my mother, and my beloved church. The greatness of Your plan for humanity will flow through our book, awakening and enlightening hundreds, thousands, millions of Your beloveds worldwide, bringing them to their own evolution in Spirit.

Father Mother, I want my children to attend the learning institutions of their choice based upon their desires. I want the financial Peace to know this will happen. Mother God, I want to remodel my kitchen. I want to install new windows and landscape the lawn of my home. I want to re-decorate my home to reflect who I am in You. I want the financial Peace to know my mother will be comfortable, all the days of her life. I want to be able to give freely from my abundance. I know that You desire for me more than I could ask, think or imagine. Having placed my desires before You, I surrender to Your Will. I desire above all else to know You, to see You, to be one with You. Thy will be done. In the precious name and one with the wonderful consciousness of Christ Jesus, my sweet Yeshua, I ask and know. This or something better, Lord I Am. And it is so. Amen

Life is so very strange. In such a short time the world and my life have changed so dramatically. I feel dramatic, darting from darkness to light in consciousness, from death to life. Death is the same as life, like the appearance of trees in winter. Joy is the same as sorrow and love the same as fear – all appearances. Finding balance is a constant need. Balance can be found in breathing, you know. You treat breathing as a luxury. God? You have treated breathing as if it is something you cannot afford. It’s been tough getting through, my beloved one, very difficult. I have been in the soup. But I want You so much then take the time to seek Me! But God, I already found You I will let you know when you have reached permanency of Christ consciousness. Still you retreat, eh, beloved? Yes, I do. I know it. In the current time of my life, I find it difficult to trust experience. Since You are the provider of all experience, I am a little gun-shy. I understand. Truly.

God, I want to so purify my being that all of my “Libby-ness”… Ahem, your “Liberty?” Okay. Correction. Purify me, sanctify me; reveal through my being the word Liberty made flesh, fully manifest, fully awake full time, to do Your Work. That is a prayer. That prayer calls for agreement. That prayer calls for declaration.

God, I am so scared. I am just petrified with fear. I feel like a traitor to You. I want to trust You completely, to just fall into that wonderful childlike trusting. I feel like a rat in a brand-new maze, one that is dark and someone keeps opening trap doors in the floor. The floor keeps falling out from under me. I see that all this stuff is just stuff, just appearances. I know You have a marvelous plan for me, waiting just beyond my vision. It’s more than just a little difficult to trust experience. How can I trust? And yet what else is there? Because if I do not trust You, then I block understanding. Trust brings understanding. I need understanding.

I know your needs. I love you tenderly, devotedly. Close your eyes, darling child, and come to Me. I long for your closeness. You long for me? Oh yes…it’s a parent thing, you know? I crave your touch, your fragrance, your holy desire for Me. God? This is where I’m most afraid. I know You are calling me to completion and I am praying myself to completion…it’s like jumping consciously into a black hole, and I’m the only one nuts enough to jump. Am I nuts? I feel so crazy sometimes, believing I am ascending in consciousness, becoming Christ right here and right now in my silly little life. All I have is You. You are entirely everything. And You are not visible, yet appear everywhere. God, I want to be conscious of You, conscious in You, conscious as You.  So the rant is over and again we have agreement. I want you and you want Me. This is where I get to take the final step. Do You mean the “final step” as in the “A Course in Miracles” final step? That’s the final step to which I refer, yes. Oh. My. God. My heart is pounding. I want You to be close like this and I’m terrified at the same time. Oh my God – I’m afraid of You! I don’t want to fear You! I want only to love You!

Then be who you are! That is how you love Me, that is how you do My will and that is how you become the fullness of Christ Liberty, the word made flesh. You have been sent as a messenger of written and spoken word: the word liberty! You are a writer – write! Display your frail humanity and accept your feeling nature in full view of the beloveds who will read these words. Your humanity is important. Remember Jesus? You love his human-ness. Take on that which you are. My beloved and wonderful one, know that I have people lined up to give you My Abundance. Trust in the truth you KNOW and I will eliminate all fear from you. I want you only to love Me, holy Liberty, with more intense desire than your energy fields can possibly contain. This fear will leave you. That is My promise.


Disheartened

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This is me, completely honest.  ~ Libby

Disheartened

Sometimes I get disheartened. Discouraged. My darling husband feels this too.

I know we really have something with our local ministry, Bread of Life. We really have something with our books, “The Future Testament” and “I Am Liberty” and “Signs & Wonders.” People actually call our writings life-changing…even scripture, which is kind of a holy shit moment. People say our teachings and classes are intellectually and spiritually stimulating and fulfilling, “PhD level spirituality,” according to one who would know. We have numerous local connections, so the word is out, too.

Our books and classes are challenging. We have surveyed the Bible, Old and New Testaments, and found new reasons to love this book and new ways to forgive it in the light of the culture and times. We spent a year talking about and experiencing the world’s major religions and their core scriptures, a time of breathtaking awakenings and expansions of thought. We are currently discussing and meditating our way through the text of “A Course in Miracles” and our Bible study has taken a quantum leap into “The Future Testament.”

Our presentation of religious truth is provocative and disagreement encouraged. Conversations are profound, transparent and honest. Listening is intense. We all share the stories of our soul’s progression as we become ready, and the sharing creates deeply meaningful bonds. Music and poems, dreams and journals are freely shared. Healing of mind and body are given unreservedly by loving and practiced healers. Those with something to say are encouraged to teach and given time and space to do so. People actively participate in their own spiritual lives and the spiritual lives of others. We serve God’s children locally, regionally and globally.

We call this “church.”

Some people love the idea, but it’s a small number. Most seem to fear it.

I’m disheartened because I deeply long to awaken the deepest of longings in many, many more people. We are acutely aware that time is of the essence. It’s like a holy ache, this one great desire, to see multitudes of my brothers and sisters remember their oneness with God. But I feel like we’re pushing up against the wall of resistance Marianne Williamson described in her book “A Return to Love”:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

We aren’t “playing small.” We’re out to make manifest the glory of God within us and everyone we meet. So while people who come to us are often irresistibly drawn to the light, fear repels them. Then there are others who have fearful habits of thinking, ideas they’ve adopted because somebody else said so. Things I’ve heard all my life, like “Libby is just so weird” (thinks she’s so perfect/smart, uses such big words, etc.) Ahyh has heard it all too. Still others have habits of loyalty to a person they think has some authority. Many people perceive Ahyh and me as “intimidating,” while those who have gotten over their intimidation realize it was all in their own minds.

All Ahyh and I want to do is to share what we have learned.

There is a frightening specter of numbness in our culture, something that is hardening many of our brothers and sisters into automatons, zombies…the living dead. So many of God’s precious children, satisfied with being followers, blindly parroting polarized views…

On top of that, there is a long-term cultural habit of thinking that tells us in myriad ways that we humans are simply not able to cut it, that we need somebody to do it all for us. People seem to deeply believe this to be true, because in terms of the physical world, we’re constantly waiting and watching for a “Superman” to save the day. Many people world-wide looked with real hope to Barack Obama as political Superman; someone who would fix the mess inWashington.

We’re deeply accustomed to this idea of waiting for a savior. In spiritual terms it’s called the “vicarious atonement,” and according to standard Christian hype, Jesus already did everything for us. All we need to do is believe in him and we’ve got the golden ticket to heaven. Funny thing, though: Jesus didn’t do anything of the sort. His greatest desire was that we would all “take up your cross and follow me.” Following Jesus would mean doing what he did with your own life: feeding the hungry, healing the sick, visiting the widows and orphans and raising the dead. Jesus’ plan doesn’t sound at all like sitting around on the couch, watching TV and throwing down snacks while you wait for him to return and rapture you away.

Your salvation is up to YOU. It’s a decision only YOU can make.

Salvation is remembering your oneness with God. It is at-one-ment, realized; the purpose of every human life. It’s being a living Christ, right in the midst of your own everyday life.

There’s an old hymn that goes “Lord I want to be like Jesus in my heart, in my heart.” To truly manifest the heart of Christ is a long journey, and I wonder how many people are actually willing.

That’s why I’m disheartened.

Thank God tomorrow is another day.

The New Jerusalem

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Today is November 22, and 48 years have passed since the November 22 when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed.

Like 9/11, November 22, 1963 was a day when huge numbers of people stopped doing and reflected, if only for a nanosecond, on who they were being. People wondered how such hatred could grow and build in the world, and remembered times when they were part of fomenting hatred. Just like 9/11, JFK’s death date was a decisive moment for mass consciousness.

And just like 9/11, it remains to be seen if mass consciousness is actually growing and changing. What passes for news does little to indicate breakthroughs in consciousness, but rather trumpets the breakdown.

On the other hand, I see blossoming and breakthrough all around me…but I know where to look. You can have the kind of vision it takes to see blossoming and breakthrough too.  Come along with me and together we will rebuild Eden. We’ll call it the New Jerusalem.  ~  Libby   

THE NEW JERUSALEM

“Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation. Come, the New Jerusalem.” Carly Simon, 1989.

This song always makes me cry. I weep tears of anticipation, desire, joy, of hope and faith.  We are the dreamers and we are waking the nations. Do we, will we believe in ourselves enough to know that “We’re coming to the edge, running on the water, coming through the fog, Your sons and daughters!”

Are you ready to know that we are coming to the edge of our evolution from human to divine? Can you feel the freedom, the exaltation, the experience of being so light, so filled with Light that you are empowered to run on the water? Can you feel yourself, as you shed your human ego, coming through the murky fog of mass consciousness (the veil) into the Light of the Living God? The New Jerusalem is not a place in time and space. It is about en-LIGHT-ened consciousness, about re-union with God and the realization of our interdependent unity with each other as cells in one body – the body of Christ.

More and more people are “getting” the idea that peace means so much more than “not at war.” Deep in our souls, humanity longs for the time when all the earth, the creatures large and small, the plants and seas and the very air lives under the blanket of the “peace that passes understanding.” We long for the true freedom that only such a peace can bring.

The idea of utopia is rooted in our human desire for peaceful lives. Utopias have been created in print and in actuality throughout the centuries. Communes can be seen as a kind of utopia…when they work. One utopian village in current existence is Damanhur, populated by about a thousand souls in the Alps of Northern Italy.  The Damanhurians have, following the vision of their leader, created incredibly gorgeous temples inside a mountain and, even more important, have created a thriving community of enlightened souls. Damanhur may be the #1 utopian spot on the earth today, and it is indeed a highly creative, beautiful and peaceful place…but the word is out! You can tour Damanhur and apply for membership.  Will the Damanhurians be able to keep the rest of us away? What they have resisted (the outside world) will persist – how long will they remain peaceful and happy in their quiet existence, away from the rest of the world? 

Whether Damanhur will succeed or fail as a utopia matters, but not much.

Damanhur matters because it is a glorious effort to create heaven on earth. It is an example of what humans are capable of and we need examples to follow because we aren’t sure of our own brilliance. Damanhur matters because the approach to building the temples inside the mountain is symbolic of what we all must do with our inner lives.  We start by remembering, restoring and rebuilding our inner, true self until we come to identify with that self alone.

 

“Know that Self alone. That is One, on which are strung heaven, the earth and the inter-space, the mind and the vital forces, together with all the other organs, and give up all other talks. This is the bridge leading to immortality.”  Atharva Veda

 

By progressively identifying with expanding ideas of self, we come to recognize and realize our own Sacred Identity as human incarnations of God. The Christ-self becomes integrated and strong, and only then are we able to remember, envision and re-create our inner Eden in the outer world.  What is the inner becomes the outer: as within, so without.

Come, the New Jerusalem!

When you apply yourself to the inner work of fully remembering God/Self, the resultant inner knowing and peace overflows and guides all the “doing” of your outer life, reshaping it into that of the avatar/saint/bodhisattva/Christ (whatever you call it). The outer life becomes like the inner, tranquil and still, surrendered to and directed by the greater heart/mind of the Higher Self (Christ self, Buddha nature, again, whatever you call it).  I know this to be true.  My inner life and outer life are not in opposition but flow peacefully together as one – my Divine life.

The New Jerusalem is built from the inside out.  When enough of us have made the leap to Divine life lived here on the earth plane, then we will again to be able to realize, truly, what God means by “as above, so below.” Heavenly crystalline cities of gold may indeed descend from above, but don’t hold your breath.  It would be much more empowering for us as God’s children to re-create what we have envisioned with our enlightened imaginations here below.  We take our heavenly visions from “above” and apply them to the here and now “below.”

The circle is complete.  The Garden of Eden is restored within, without, above and below.  All has returned to goodness.  Wouldn’t that be utopian?

Habits of Thinking

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Hey y’all – I’ve been thinking about the world’s problems a LOT; that and the prospect of up-coming family get-togethers and the inevitability of arguments in today’s wildly polarized world. It all makes me feel a little sick, and I don’t know about you, but I’m very dispirited about the idea of talking to any more blank, unyielding walls of talking points, hatred and division wrapped up in false righteousness and piety.

And Congress. I’m so over all the good ol’ boys on both sides I could scream, but instead, I offer you this.

May you find the blessings of adulthood in God! ~ Libby

Habits of Thinking

We all have habits; we even say we’re “creatures of habit.” Some human habits are good things, like healthy eating, exercise and sleeping. Cultivating the habit of prayer and meditation is not only a proven stress-reliever but brings about feelings of inner strength, resilience and closeness to God. Habits can be very good things.

Of course, we all know of habits that can destroy lives, marriages, businesses, hopes and dreams, often persisting generation after generation. Everyone has seen such habits manifest their evil. These habits are addictions: to alcohol or drugs or food. But there are other addictions that destroy with no less fury: addictions to sex, to power and control, to money and greed, to shopping or hoarding…a very long list.

Every habit, good or bad, starts innocuously enough. All habits start in the mind. Addictions start with a thought, like

“Just one.”

“I deserve it.”

“One time can’t hurt anything.”

“It makes me feel so good.”

But some habits start because we’re not thinking, and these thought-habits may be the most insidious of all. When it happens, we’re on auto-pilot, like zombies, just taking in words. We might be watching TV, constantly focused on a certain news station because somebody that we like or want to like us watches, and we want to impress. It might be a radio show. It might happen because of Facebook, where your chosen interests become so narrow that you only see one point of view. It might happen because you admire someone of authority in your church, at work, some celebrity or politician, a certain speaker. You become a fan and hang on every word, convincing yourself that this person is right, perhaps nodding along with every point. But no matter how it happens, it’s going to be dangerous to your mind. You’re going to stop thinking for yourself and adopt the talking points of your idol(s), often without having a clue as to his or her motives.

Did you think of someone? Make sure you take a good look in the mirror, too, and pay attention to what you’re saying.

These kinds of thought habits form cults. These kinds of habits make people into racists, sexists and religious extremists all around the world. Thought habits like these have infected political parties and are causing widespread brainwashing through the media, all across our planet. We are not using our own minds, but parroting the thoughts of others, arms outstretched and mindlessly following, as if the zombie apocalypse is in full swing.

A Course in Miracles seeks to re-order the mind from duality to unity thinking, from feeling separate from God to feeling one with God. Unified thinking (God thought) doesn’t have a left or a right or even a positive or negative. In truth, there is no good or bad, only what is. And what is, is God. When you are thinking unified thoughts, there can be no enemy. Everyone is your neighbor: every human being on the planet and the planet herself, including the animals and the plants, the water and the air. When your mind is in God-mind, labeling ceases. Factions become fictions and isms disappear. Cliques dissolve. There is no “in crowd” because everyone is allowed in.

You become fully adult, response-able and growing toward completion, wholeness and fulfillment. Jesus has promised to lift us to his fulfillment, “I, if I be lifted up, will draw all humankind to me.” The Future Testament paints a glorious word-picture of what fulfillment is like individually and collectively.

Your family and friends, your church, your town or city, your nation, your PLANET needs you NOW. Think for yourself! You might have to turn off the TV, the radio; you may have to leave your church. You may need to make some uncomfortable decisions.

“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” ~ Simon Wiesenthal

Do something.

Please. Grow. Up.