“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America….” I grew up reciting those words, with hand on heart, every school day morning.
Eventually the god of “one nation under God” changed for me. After baptisms of babies, teaching Sunday school and repeating the other pledge; the one that starts with “Jesus said you should….” something shifted. A light came on.
The narrow focus of the Christian god became a bigger god. A more encompassing god. A god that truly says love all your neighbors. God, for me, became, as the roots of trees underground, a connector. The unseen energy that joins all that lives.
That school day pledge, the part that says “…..with liberty and justice for all” means ALL no matter our differences. That is the beauty of the bouquet.
This nation’s current administration of clowns and buffoons, along with a congress of cowards, with one hand in our pockets and the other on their dicks, have ripped down that flag. They have distorted those pledges and made an idol of the god.
Is this the end of a 249 year republic of democracy? Or is it a light shinning on the roots of a grander connection?
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