ADD, KARMA, CAMINO, WALDORF, CHILDBIRTH, OBAMA

Anything I write on these topics seems to gather the most readers. I am trying to sort out a commonality. One link I see is that all these subjects get a lot more interesting if we approach them from a spiritual perspective. This perspective is obvious except perhaps in the discussions of ADD and Obama.

If we take karma as a foundation, which I do, then kids are born to exactly the right parents and place and circumstances that they need to meet in this incarnation. And if karma makes sense then it is hand and hand with re-incarnation. If Obama sounded Lincolnesque in his speech "On Race and Religion", then perhaps being the first black president of the USA is really huge for the spiritual destiny of this country. Countries have karma also. We may have moved pretty far away from the ideas of brotherhood that the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia articulated. I don't generally 'see' karmic connections, but somehow I feel that no matter how he has performed, Obama did give us a hit of hope and working together and a moment of that old 'can do' stuff we used to take pride in. Yayaya.

If I think of the ADD kids from the perspective of who they really are, I see a lot of them as warm, loving, interested in everything, bouncy, full of it, easily bored, let's get on with it, be more interesting, hands on, kids. I wonder sometimes if a lot of them are coming into this life with more than the adults they come to. Are they smarter, more fun, wanting to feel, touch, hear, see everything? Are the adults and the schools too excruciatingly slow and dull for them? Have they come to lead us into the future and finding that we can't handle them. We are too busy, too over-loaded, too uptight? (I am not talking here about the seriously troubled kids, but rather the millions who are getting drugs rather than fresh air, junk food rather than fruits and veggies, handouts rather than teaching).

I can say with confidence that the makeup of a Waldorf class is a karmic constellation. So I should remember this applies not just to Waldorf schools. We are in the Waldorf class, or walking the Camino, or loving or hating Obama, or taking drugs for ADD or not, or having a natural childbirth because of the perfect working of our karma. Now let us think how we can improve of personal and national and family karma for the future and work consciously toward making less suffering for ourselves and others.