Another senseless tragedy. At some point, we have to acknowledge that we are in the midst of a spiritual warfare. The artillery of such a war is not laws that regulate guns or rulings that limit the people that come in and our of our country.

Rather the artillery to win such a battle consists of kindness, understanding and love among all humans in this world. Despite the tragedies that we have experienced over the last 12 months, from Sandy Hook to the Sikh Temple Shootings to the Boston Marathon and many other places in between, we are not yet collectively taking action as our President ordered us to do as people. After Sandy Hook, our President was in tears on our televisions while he told us specifically to come together and take some deliberate action because we, as people, as Americans, have a power to affect our world.

It is human nature to reach out and help those that are in need. The footage of the marathon is evidence of that when hundreds of people ran towards the blasts to help those in need. The zombie movies and end-of-the-world documentaries often depict human nature as being all out for ourselves, however that is not what is within our inner spirits. There is a natural desire within us to help those that are around us.

I will admit, that I have written some of these columns in response to various tragedies and I have begged readers to do something beyond just reading my words, however outside of writing my thoughts here, my deliberate actions did not go much past that. However this time, I tried something different.

I went through my cell phone contacts, my Facebook friends, and my outbox in my email and I made a list of 25 people that I thought would actually extend a kind act to someone if I asked them to. My list was not necessarily the people that are closest to me, because a lot of people that are close to me would have read my letter and just replied back to me to tell me how sad the events were to them as well – there is a certain personality type that will actually take action upon such words. Some of those people, I barely know. Or I have not talked to in many, many years. Regardless, if my inner spirit was guiding me to write them, I did.

Each of them received a personal letter where I indicated why I wrote to them personally and I essentially allowed my heart to pour out with the pain I was feeling about humanity while the Boston Marathon news footage was playing in the background. An eight-year-old being one of the casualties of the blast. A three-year-old taken to the hospital suffering severe injuries. How unfathomably tragic.

I am not sure what the results will be from the letters that I wrote, however it is not really my place to know. In my opinion, these are the types of things that need to be done to fight this spiritual war we are in the midst of. It is hard for me to think of the world’s events of the last year without shedding tears, and someone close to me told me that all our Goddesses are likely shedding tears as well, so it is a natural response. According to our beliefs, our Goddesses are within us, despite our gender, we embody their attributes … so what would they do? How can you call upon their spirit within your heart to draw on a power of something you can do? One of my strengths is crafting words so that is why I chose to write letters … you have your own strengths that can affect people, what are they?

Just one small action, or one small set of kind words to someone, or a simple gesture can make such a difference to someone. I know this from being in many low places in life. It was often just something simple that someone said to me that touched me so deeply. I was left so encouraged and these actions can likely be credited to steering me out of these low places I was in. If we can affect small destructive actions, who knows what the larger effect of that would be. This is how the butterfly effect works, and it starts with you. Hundred of thousands of eyes will glaze over this article … but how many will actually act?