OUR NATION AND OUR WORLD NEED HEALING. BARACK OBAMA IS CALLING US ALL TO JOIN HIM IN THAT HEALING WORK. PLEASE HELP.
When my friend Jon Wallace returned from doing relief after Katrina, he touched my heart with stories of people from diverse faiths and backgrounds working together for a common good. He, a Buddhist, praised the Southern Baptists for arriving with a truck load of food and handing it out to anyone who came. I believe that most Americans want to work together for the common good. For that to happen, our nation needs spiritual healing.
We created Clergy for Obama because we truly believe Barack is reaching out to touch our hearts and heal these wounds, to bring us together with a common dream, to work in a common cause of building a nation and world with greater compassion and justice.
Obama built his campaign around his conviction that it is “We the People” who can and must bring change and healing to America. Obama understands the lessons of Gandhi, King and Lincoln that only by calling on “the better angels of our natures,” only by calling US to lift up OUR voices, can real, deep, long lasting change and healing be envisioned and embodied.
When David Brooks interviewed Obama, Brooks spontaneously asked if he’d read Reinhold Niebuhr. He reports that Obama perked up and said “I love him.” When asked what he got from Niebuhr, Barack replied “I take away the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away…the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard…” http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/04/david-brooks-obama-gospel-and-verse.html
Please join us in Clergy for Obama, to work hard for Barack and for all of us, to lift up the best of all our religious traditions: the biblical call for social justice; Jesus’ concern for the least among us; Islam’s pillar of charity; the Buddha’s call to compassion; and the Gita’s vision of people who “burn with the bliss and suffer the sorrow of every creature in their own hearts.”
Help us in this work.
Bob Mesle
Lamoni, Iowa
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