Monday, October 27, 2008

The Exercise of Forbearance: An Example

REGARDING THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS which is right now being pushed by some interested parties, whether their grievance be legitimate or not it is not for me to decide, but forbearance (the 5th of our Social Exercises - meant to strengthen social values) asks that we prioritize our energies to serve the most immediate needs of our people.

There will always be evil in our midst but we must also sometimes be able and willing to absorb some of these in order to pursue a greater good - that is the the exercise of forbearance - it is a willingness to sacrifice as well as be sacrificed in order to attain to a higher good - and there is no other higher good than looking after the good of the very least of our citizens (the 4th Faithful Cause).

The world is in the middle of a financial crisis and this plays into GMA's inherent strength as an economist. 2010 is just around the corner and it seems to me really both impractical and wasteful, even whimsical to pursue a process of which ends shall anyway be realized if one were to practice a little more constraint more than do violence to our political process as a whole at a time when we should be thinking of ways to shore up our economy which shall surely be impacted by the cascading effects of the global market meltdown.

Of course, that is wholly my own democratic opinion as a citizen of this one Republic.

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