It takes many threads to make a cloth. All threads are interwoven in different patterns, textures, and colors and just like snowflakes each cloth is a bit different. But the building blocks, the threads, remain the foundation. So we are as a nation.
Each of us are threads that bind the fabric of our country together, and we are each like no other. Our pasts, our experiences, our families and our friends make us who we are and determine how our personal thread weaves the fabric that comes together and how our nation moves ahead, or goes backward.
Lately it seems that we are told that we cannot think our own thoughts and we must think some other way. We are often ridiculed for having an opinion which differs from someone else's, there is no individuality and originality, and we are led to believe that we all fit into the same box. Gone are the days when we could agree to disagree. Lost are the times when someone actually listened to what is being said. Missing is the respect we used to have for the different threads that kept us safe and warm, happy and healthy, free and strong.
What has happened to us, me, you? Where are we headed? The threads we have sewn over two centuries are being ripped apart and the fabric of this once great nation has become tattered.
I wish I had a quick fix, but there is none. All that we can do is find some common threads, bind yourselves together in your community, love one another, and never forget how this country was woven together and the spirituality upon which it was founded.
