Create a Loving World by Building Caring Local Communities

May 18, 2020 | 7 comments

By Elizabeth Flanders

Six or seven years ago, I began having visions of our world in chaos. It was very disturbing, so I tested with a friend and national helper. I received a state of profound peace, like nothing I had felt before. My friend received when the chaos came, I would be able to stay peaceful while others were in panic. I also received several times afterwards, “You are a messenger of peace and the natural world will help you.” Nature has become very alive for me. The nature spirits send me lots of love and encouragement.

Soon afterwards I received to support my local community. I saw that we would not be able to count on our national government and life needed to centered locally. I was asked to be President of our local St. Vincent DePaul and was invited to be on the board of our local Community Foundation. I saw the synchronicity and accepted both.

Now, I am part of those on the front lines supporting those most vulnerable in our community during this crisis. SVdP has an emergency hotline and food bank. The Foundation is not only raising money, but spearheading community organization around a variety of needs such as food and medicine delivery to the elderly and ill. I am also working with our local immigrant population that can’t access government support.

I experience daily how this world is created out of Love. As Pope Francis said, “Rivers don’t drink their own water and trees don’t eat their own fruit. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other.”

Our culture has forgotten this natural law and we are now ill from our own toxicity. No other species fouls it’s own habitat. We humans now have an opportunity to correct our course and learn to live in harmony with each other and the natural world. Our survival depends on it.

(This was originally published in the Reminders of Reality Newsletter)

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7 Comments

  1. So beautiful Elizabeth!

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  2. Thank you for being able to witness your receiving, & for being able to share it with such clarity.
    Here in beautiful British Columbia, about 80% of us are being able to care for humankind by handwashing & keeping Social Distancing measures in place. By acknowledging & implementing the Public Health Protocols given to us by Dr Bonnie Henry, we ‘re able to assist others & keep them from being ill. But for those of us in urban settings, it is a conscious but important sacrifice not to be scoffed at. People in rural settings may have a harder time accepting these proven measures, as they rarely come into contact with congregated groups of humans. As Dr Henry says: “Be Kind, Be Calm, & Be Safe”.

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  3. I really liked your story, Elizabeth! I hope we can make it to a better world for all nature, people and animals!

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  4. Thank you for your service and thank you for sharing with all of us. May your words serve as inspiration for many!

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  5. Dear Elizabeth
    Thank you so much for sharing this. We all need to read, re-read and take this to heart, let it lead our actions.

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  6. I love you, Elizabeth. Your essay just cements all the pieces of why.
    Hariana

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  7. Thank you , Elizabeth!
    You affirm what some of us have needed to remember. To be open to all of creation and to love. You are an inspiration. May you be blessed.

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