Vengeance Is Mine
VENGEANCE IS MINE
© August 18, 2023 – November 2, 2023 (All Souls Day)
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Farmers plant corn, know reap same:
don’t plant beans, expect corn in return.
Imperialist England colonized India:
1857 revolt began tumble like broken tibia.
America’s slavery hideous insult to meaning:
`All men are created equal…’ mockery of ideal.
Enlightened exhibited absent KARMA clue:
concocted own, consumed poisonous mind stew.
History exposes countries who upheld slavery:
consequences mirrored Armageddon prophecy.
Over 35 million dead WWII/600,000 Civil War:
Vengeance is Mine…saith the Lord; keeping score.
Secular/Religious exposed for youth sin:
innocent children entrusted abused sexually.
Influencers act untouchable, as powers greaten:
Christ scorned papal chief: Get behind me Satan.
Individuals/Families/Groups/Societies/Nations SIN:
as if each of us have the Crayola 152 Count Box.
Each color signifying an emotion, behavior, nuance:
in vivo/vicarious progress contribute to relevance.
2023 - individuals, nations repeating past:
Trump sounds like Hitler, Ukraine like America.
Palestinians like Indians, Prejudiced like Confederates:
Dictatorship vs Freedom gained like United Arab Emirates.
9/11/01 Al-Qa`ida attacked USA; 10/14/23 Israel by Hamas:
terrorists’ groups condemned by USA and European Union.
Countries who kidnap/enslave hypocritical terrorists too:
Tear Down This Wall past echo, yet build/preach from pew.
Recent chat with luminary asserted my stance:
if evil threatens my child, I am going to attack.
Yet, I forgave villain who stabbed me 42 times:
pendulum swings assault to spiritual primes.
What If God Was One of Us refrains pop song:
three major religions describe God’s love & wrath.
Kabbalistic mysticism affirms oneness with Divine:
thus, wrath/justice, juxtaposed with celestial shine.
Archangel Michael with sword protector in all three:
shows war against evil fought by heaven/earth hosts.
Military/Police/Law execute divine justice retribution:
God’s vengeance personified in human constitution.
When highest divine law is trespassed against:
magnitudes of conflict are tribulations and trials.
Humans are instruments of inequity/justice – evil/goodness:
polar extremes from wicked degenerates to holy righteousness.
European colonists claimed Western Hemisphere:
indigenous conquered, subjected to their rule.
American Revolution rebellion against homeland:
Give me liberty or give me death rallying command.
Who decides who and what is good vs bad or evil:
survival of the fittest definition for most power.
First Emperor of China unified all by aggression:
Hitler’s aim destroy Jews modeled by American slavery.
Isolationists America was ‘til bombed by Japan:
immediate entry into existing war was defense.
Current movie Oppenheimer describes eventual:
aggression/defense culminates in death perpetual.
Opposite THOUING/LOVE/RESPECT is ODIUM:
whether individual, sex, age, class, nation, entity.
PEACE within one/all accomplished by ESTEEM:
eloquently expressed by King…I HAVE A DREAM!
Gandhi/King walked talk peaceful protest for equal rights:
success though seemed like one step forward, two steps back.
Ethics of the Fathers personifies cry of one/all:
peace/love/respect should be as the dew fall.
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19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.
https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25.19?lang=bi&aliyot=0
אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָֽרְךָ֜ בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ וַיְזַנֵּ֤ב בְּךָ֙ כׇּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִ֣ים אַֽחֲרֶ֔יךָ וְאַתָּ֖ה עָיֵ֣ף וְיָגֵ֑עַ וְלֹ֥א יָרֵ֖א אֱלֹהִֽים׃
how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear.
וְהָיָ֡ה בְּהָנִ֣יחַ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֣יךָ ׀ לְ֠ךָ֠ מִכׇּל־אֹ֨יְבֶ֜יךָ מִסָּבִ֗יב בָּאָ֙רֶץ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְהֹוָה־אֱ֠לֹהֶ֠יךָ נֹתֵ֨ן לְךָ֤ נַחֲלָה֙ לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ תִּמְחֶה֙ אֶת־זֵ֣כֶר עֲמָלֵ֔ק מִתַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם לֹ֖א תִּשְׁכָּֽח׃ {פ}
Therefore, when your God יהוה grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that your God יהוה is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
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“'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. ' The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ' There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31).
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
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“IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF…WHO WILL BE?
IF I AM FOR MYSELF ONLY…WHAT AM I?
IF NOT NOW…WHEN?”
Ethics of the Fathers 1:14
In the lifetime of your children…?
In your lifetime…?
This year…?
This day…?
If not now…when?
Look at your hand…
You can move it…as a caress or as a fist; to build up or to tear down; to give or to take. Always, your hand can make a mistake or correct one. Or it can do nothing. So with your heart and your mind, as with your hand. They can serve your need alone…or serve another…or serve no one. The decision is yours. This is the wonder, and the challenge, of our lives. For the harsh fact of our lives is how free we are to do nothing. Or to do the wrong thing: to hurt not only others but ourselves. Yet the great thing of our lives is how free we are to start again; to find a better path from whatever wrong turn we, or our world, may have taken. We are not caught forever in any effort or confusion. The power is ours to move again.
“IF NOT NOW…WHEN?”
Look at yourself…
For whom has the power to move been given if not for you; so that you can be responsible for meeting your own needs. You have every right – indeed, the obligation – to do so:
- the right to use your heart, and your mind, and your hand, to advance your standard of living; to enjoy the blessings which today's world makes possible.
- the right to seek and earn the respect of those around you; to achieve recognition of
your talents and efforts.
And who but you should strive for a better life for your family, a promising future for your children?
“IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF…WHO WILL BE?”
Look at your neighbor…
Aren’t his children as dear to him as yours are to you? Isn’t his self-respect as necessary to him as yours to you? And if he is denied the freedom and opportunity to serve his own needs, to fulfill his obligations, to enjoy his rights, what happens to you? For you are your neighbor’s neighbor. And it is only together that you can possibly achieve the kind of community you want for yourself, for your own family, and for the family of man.
“IF I M FOR MYSELF ONLY…WHAT AM I?”
Look at the world…
Even as we can reach out our hand to give or to take, to build up or tear down, so men everywhere can now easily move their ideas, their values, and themselves, to any corner of the earth – to give or to take, to build up or to tear down. We are no longer alone; whether as an individual, as a family, as a community, as a nation. We all live in one place. What is happening “there” is happening here. Thus, there is no longer any such thing as poverty “there.” It is poverty here. There is no such thing as oppression “there.” It is oppression here. There is no such thing as ignorance “there.” It is ignorance here. Again, this is the wonder and the challenge of our lives. As we seek wisdom, and freedom, and sustenance for ourselves, we can only hope to reach and maintain these goals as we are concerned that others achieve them too, creating them together.
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“God: we’re in trouble down here.
Please send help”.
“I did: I sent you”.
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