And there, at the end of Chapter 12 of the book I am reading, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche, was an answer to my heartache. 

"We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in Heaven with Him at this very moment.  But being happy with Him now means:  Loving as He loves, Helping as He helps, Giving as He gives, Serving as He serves, Rescuing as He rescues, Being with Him twenty-four hours, Touching Him in His distressing disguise."

Meanwhile, everything else goes on full bore, and I thought I saw that some form of evolution is under way right now in what happens in the world.  If you look back at any other age, it seems that there was always the same suffering of people caused mostly by other people.  The same principle of force, or Might Makes Right has always applied.  In today's world, though, we have the giant corporations and all their well-paid lobbyists, and they seem to be unstoppable. 

It looks like Republicans really do not want to pay their upcoming taxes, when called upon to do so.  I believe that this is why we hear such challenges, crying and whining, and the general revolt in their language lately.  They had all the money flowing their way only, especially in the past 8 years, and now the people have spoken, by electing President Barack Obama.  The government of, by and for the people is back, and the filthy rich don't like it at all.  They have been working hard to destroy this government, take all the money for themselves, and go international.  I now believe that this country and its government is in the most imminent danger of being destroyed by the very rich to advance their own greedy cause.  I have never felt such a need to blog or publicly express my political feelings in the past.  It's only the danger of losing our country that impels me to participate, at least to this extent.