A Brief Shift in Focus

Intro: 

Don Henley The End of Innocence

So, I did have several ideas about this post, which
-- by whatever course of fortune were mostly
wiped out today by  my listening to the following
interview:

Robert Reich -   The Common Good


Whatever topic I was trying to get at, I felt a lot of
it was covered perhaps more clearly and directly
than the direction my thoughts were taking me.


So it is very interesting, I thought, the many interesting
points addressed in the interview but also
the topic is a title for a new book with the same name.

So he addresses this issue of the common good as
well as a connection to an evolving sense of morality
in our  cultural conversation. And clearly he presents
an important concept in that notion that morality
is ---- changing, and becoming broader in meaning ----
in our culture.  Well, we can only hope in fact this is true.

And so this might as well be as good a time as any for this:

Prayer for America

OThou kind Lord!  This gathering is turning to Thee.  These hearts are radiant with Thy love.  These minds and spirits are exhilarated by the message of Thy glad-tidings.  O God!  Let this American democracy become glorious in spiritual degrees even as it has aspired to material degrees, and render this just government victorious.  Confirm this revered nation to upraise the standard of the oneness of humanity, to promulgate the Most Great Peace, to become thereby most glorious and praiseworthy among all the nations of the world.  O God!  This American nation is worthy of Thy favors and is deserving of Thy mercy.  Make it precious and near to Thee through Thy bounty and bestowal. 

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

copied from this location:  Baha'i Prayers