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Christmas in the time of COVID: Let Love and Kindness be Your Everlasting Gifts

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Kamran Mofid
14 November 2020
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There is a world beyond the pandemic and the lockdown. It's time to come up with a hopeful and positive vision

The Time is Now to Lead with the Power of Kindness, Compassion, Gratitude, Purpose, Humanity,

and Humility to Make the World a Better Place


Photo:Experience Life

Once the World Was Perfect

Joy Harjo - 1951-

Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world.

Then we took it for granted.

Discontent began a small rumble in the earthly mind.

Then Doubt pushed through with its spiked head.

And once Doubt ruptured the web,

All manner of demon thoughts

Jumped through—

We destroyed the world we had been given

For inspiration, for life—

Each stone of jealousy, each stone

Of fear, greed, envy, and hatred, put out the light.

No one was without a stone in his or her hand.

There we were,

Right back where we had started.

We were bumping into each other

In the dark.

And now we had no place to live, since we didn’t know

How to live with each other.

Then one of the stumbling ones took pity on another

And shared a blanket.

A spark of kindness made a light.

The light made an opening in the darkness.

Everyone worked together to make a ladder.

A Wind Clan person climbed out first into the next world,

And then the other clans, the children of those clans, their children,

And their children, all the way through time—

To now, into this morning light to you.

......

And Now Hopefully We Can Make the World Perfect Again with the Power of our Love, Compassion, and Humanity

Read more: Christmas in the time of COVID: Let Love and Kindness be Your Everlasting Gifts

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  4. This is why every country needs a Jacinda Ardern to discover What it Means to be Human and Great
  5. ‘I have a Dream’, 57 Years On and Why We Must Carry on Imagining the Dream
  6. Poetry is the Education that Nourishes the Heart and Nurtures the Soul
  7. In Search of a Better Tomorrow: Reasons for Hope In Times of Uncertainty
  8. Thank you UN secretary general for hearing the cries of the youth to build a better and more sustainable world
  9. This is How to Make the World Great Again: The Compassion Project
  10. The Tragedy of Health and Social Care Failings in our Privatised and Monetised World

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