The Meaning of Donald Trump’s Pierced Ear
Last night was one of the few times we had the news on. We were monitoring a tornado in the area as another story began to emerge about an assisination attempt on Donald Trump. Trump was pierced by a bullet in his right ear before he dropped to his knees as others in service rushed to protect him. The significance of this moment carries an opportunity to listen deeply to what is needed for healing in this nation, our hearts, our imagination, and beyond.
Many will be tossed to and fro by news reports, agendas to twist the narrative, conspiracy theories, and just fear for the state of their troubled soul in troubling times. However, there is an opportunity to move deeper into the invitation to read the times with a perspective that not only centers you in inner peace, but allows you to have the eyes to see through the surface level of things; eyes that see through deception and ignorance, which are the two greatest weapons formed against humans.
They do not need to prosper.
For some, you want some facts before you ever get into deep meaning. Mostly, these will emerge as official investigations surrounding the twenty year old shooter identified as Thomas Mathew Cooks, come to light. Some media outlets will dive into how he identified as a registered voter. It does not matter. His vote was registered live as one who does not understand how life is designed to work regardless of political affiliation.
We too, are designed to understand how life works regardless of political affiliation.
For others, they will blow this event out of context in their support for Donald Trump, while others will use it against him. Hopefully, this piece grazes our ear just enough for the lifeblood of what is really being said to be known. We must take a step back, much further than the sites and position of an active shooter, and we must begin to activate a seeing from a higher perspective, so that when we do zoom in, we do not get lost in appearances, for the Lord looks at the heart.
The Call To Listen
The significance of Donald Trump’s ear being pierced by a bullet is a kairos moment. A kairos moment is an opportune time when there is a sign loud enough to get everyone’s attention, yet requires us to listen longer than normal to what is being revealed to see what we usually miss. We listen longer so that familiar ways of thinking and seeing can be disrupted in order for divine seeing to emerge. There is a reason the word ear is in the words hear and heart. It is the art of diving hearing that we are after and we say,
“Blessed are the ears that hear.”
That bullet grazing the right ear is a shot heard around the world. Not everyone needs to know of this event to hear the shot, but the likelihood of it being heard across a significant number of outlets is happening based on this age at which the speed of information travels. The problem is not always the information, or misinformation, and the speed at which it travels, the problem is the speed at which Wisdom travels. Wisdom travels much slower and deeper than information and fills the missing spaces with understanding not seen by the naked eye. Wisdom requires patience and humility. Wisdom transforms, whereas information does not necessarily inform from inside of transformation.
Wisdom informs us on a deep level in our spiritual formation, the reason you are here, and brings us into deeper meaning. It is often so simple that we complicate it if we do not listen longer than our minds addiction of thinking it knows what it is seeing or reading. It must reach the heart.
Plainly stated and better intuited:
The shot to the ear is a call to listen deeply. How do we do that? For one, it will be rare to find what you are looking for by searching the internet or watching countless videos about the event. One suggestion in tuning your ears to hear is to turn off the news with its tornado-like destruction of spinning knowledge that destroys everything in its path. Next, find a place in nature to learn the rhythms of the earth and what our Creator has designed us to know from it. As someone recently said, “God made the earth and we made the world.” There is a difference between learning what God made from what humans have made. Jesus often went to a lonely place in nature to be with what is, as to know what really is apart from the noise of crowds, talking heads on screens, and worlds not made by God, but by human hands.
We however are called to look for a city whose maker and builder is God and we can learn that from the earth, so long as we listen long to what it has to say and not destroy it for our own means, thus robbing ourselves of meaning. We can drop to our knees, like Trump, to learn to pray right where we are, to return to the ground of our being which grounds us in a Truth rooted in humility and sight. This grounding is so far beyond the political spectrums of our day, and allows us to see from an inner knowing that is no longer dualistic in its understanding of the world. We can then learn to pray and support all people, without needing to support everything they do, something needed for this kairos moment.
We will then learn what to stand for and to keep fighting for what is actually right, regardless of appearances.
In essence, our ears have been pierced by the bullets of divine insight and we can either ignore the pain or we can drop to our knees to learn to pray on that piece of earth we find ourselves right now. We can position ourselves to listen, to move closer to the earth from which we were made, and understand why “God so loved the world.” We can leave the stage and embrace those who will come around to support us in what matters, and we can rise again in the wisdom of our Elders.
Let the reader hear,
-PH
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It’s too simple, they say. Ah yes, simple is where the profound exists. Listen longer until you actually know it in your heart, from within, and not just information in your head. Wisdom cries out from the rooftops and in the streets, but is designed to be foundational in your heart.