Tea

I sat today with a pile of mail.
I give to charities, it is my way of doing some small thing to make the world better.
It is part of my walk with the divine, and my outward expression of gratitude.
My heart was heavy today, as I looked thru some 15 odd requests from charities
for money.
It sits so hard in my center to throw them away,
I feel such grief at the faces of those in hunger, and ravaged by wars.
Sometimes, if I am lucky and they are mostly paper, The little one and I recycle them into seed papers to send to friends.
Have you ever done this? It’s fun, and it’s a good way to use up the junk ( or not junk) that comes via the post.
This is an easy explanation here, I just add the seeds before I screen.
So peanut and I were talking about one of the requests,
one that I hold very dear to my heart.
One that I know a great many wonderful Fellow bloggers contribute to:
Women for women.
Here at wordpress they have a wonderful blog, that you can read about what these courageous people are doing.
So the little one was trying to understand what the flyer was about, and asking me why it made me so sad.
Do you not just love the heart of innocence? So trying to explain to her about the women in Bosnia, and the atrocities they have suffered, and continue to go thru, was a hard thing to express to a 10 year old. She gets upset when it’s weeks before she gets ice cream, how do you relate all the suffering to one whom you spend your every waking hour trying to shield from the harshness of the world?
Yet in their infinite wisdom, children get it, on some level, they understand the wanting and the needing.
So those of you in the world with wisdom, what do you say when a child asks you
” but why do we have wars?”
From my heart ” I don’t honestly know, or understand.”
With all the sage wisdom of a child she says ” people should make tea, not war. Then they can sit and talk about the problems and find ways to fix them , like you and your friends do!”
( yeah, tears here, in profusion, and DO NOT BE thinking I have ever been successful at fixing anything in the world other than my car and the plumbing!!!)
I have not been able to throw lately, my illness has been prohibitive of it, so my etsy charity shop has been a bit empty, but I ran with the little ones idea, and drew first a tea cup, and then had the fabulous neighbor digitize it to make it an embroidery design, and I have put it on an apron and a tea-shirt! ( pun intended! LOL)
I know that most folks are struggling like we are, and that some days I wonder where the world is headed. I know there are more people in need than I can help, I may be a dreamer, but I know I am not the only one.
So the next time you sit with a cup of tea, or a mug of coffee, perhaps for just one moment you might think ” make tea/coffee not war” and if perhaps enough of us hold this sentiment close in our hearts, we can manifest a change, invoke the power of possibilities.