“Verily, my mercy prevails over my wrath.”
– The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, describing what God had him write down.
Today is a beautiful day. Oh, my, this Friday’s a gorgeous day outside! The First of June 2018, it is. Ah, late springtime in the Pacific Northwest out here in Seattle. Feels like Summer already! Flowers are out, the birds are singing, the clouds are fluffy, and the bees are buzzing. Hope and joy ripple the air, and any sorrows subside into the majesty of these magickal, blue-sky moments.
People are outside running up and down hills, for goodness sakes. Pedaling bicycles! Out there on the lakes and rivers paddling kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddle boards! Men and women aboard those small sailboats working together to unfurl and set the sails! Woo Hoo! Paragliding and scuba diving, too! Sweat is flying! Altho, yeah, those joggers are wearing the same clothes they wore back when they ran thru bone-chilling winds, freezing rain, and mashed, slick-as-ice snow back in the wintertime.
Yes, today is a beautiful day, and may yours be, too, wherever you are in this world of ours. It’s a beautiful day indeed, and as our country sinks into cesspools of raging neo-tribalism and slides further towards civil war past the eye-rolling, head-shaking mirth of overly optimistic deniers, may our mercy prevail over our wrath, to paraphrase God and the Prophet from an Islamic Hadith. Aye, may our mercy prevail over our wrath, yours, too, please, and mine.
We are at choice. We always have a choice. This choice is an expression of power, and we all have this power. The storms of war approach, and these are our storms. Whether one believes in any deity or sacred scripture and even if all one knows is dialogue from a TV show set after the zombie apocalypse is irrelevant. What matters is what we choose to be and do now.
Together we can choose a reign of mercy over terror and annihilation.
William Dudley Bass
Originally written Friday 1 June 2018
Published here Wednesday 6 March 2019
Seattle, Washington
United States of America
Planet Earth
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