TAKE ACTION TODAY – ” … we simply try to live this program in the here and now. We find joy as we start to learn how to live by the principles … needed to carry the message of recovery.” “Spiritually refreshed we are glad to be alive.” (The Basic Text, p. 52)

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) U.S. poet

Get Out the Vote on Broadway (2:35)

Spiritual Freedom in America – Emerson (1:44)

Powerful Healing Gayatri Mantra (3:31)

How do you take action to live according to your own spiritual ideal, lately?

How We Used to Take Action and VOTE –

On the morning of November 2, 1859 —Election Day— George Kyle, a merchant with the Baltimore firm of Dinsmore & Kyle, left his house with a bundle of ballots tucked under his arm. Kyle was a Democrat. As he neared the polls in the city’s Fifteenth Ward, which was heavily dominated by the American Party, a ruffian tried to snatch his ballots. Kyle dodged and wheeled, and heard a cry: his brother, just behind him, had been struck.

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Next, someone clobbered Kyle, who drew a knife, but didn’t have a chance to use it. “I felt a pistol put to my head,” he said. Grazed by a bullet, he fell. When he rose, he drew his own pistol, hidden in his pocket. He spied his brother lying in the street. Someone else fired a shot, hitting Kyle in the arm. A man carrying a musket rushed at him. Another threw a brick, knocking him off his feet. George Kyle picked himself up and ran. He never did cast his vote. Nor did his brother, who died of his wounds.

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The Democratic candidate for Congress, William Harrison, lost to the American Party’s Henry Winter Davis. Three months later, when the House of Representatives convened hearings into the election, whose result Harrison contested, Davis’s victory was upheld on the ground that any “man of ordinary courage” could have made his way to the polls. (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/rock-paper-scissors)