People are usually frightened of things they know little about. This is evident in the way animals are killed rather than understood. It is also why wars happen and military personnel can more easily kill their enemies if they don’t meet them on a personal level. Living in a multi-cultural society, however, is hard unless one breaks down those prejudices and joins in with the community.
In Australia we have a situation where people are welcomed from all parts of the earth. They are accepted and helped by both governments, and the people. It is difficult for many of these immigrants to assimilate because they carry racial prejudice from their homelands.
This is brain-washed into them from birth by parents who live in fear and are mostly badly treated by the governments of their own countries. They can’t switch until something major happens to force them to accept that not all are the same as what they left behind.
This was brought home to me some time ago when the Spirit led me to speak to a woman in a local shopping mall. She sat alone on a bench when I approached and opened a conversation. She seemed a little taken back at first but then warmed to me. When her husband arrived he was delighted that we were having a conversation and asked me to be her friend.
Yes! That is just what God wanted as well. It turned out that she was pregnant and in the absence of her mother she asked me to be at the birth. For some time, it happened that the empty spot in her heart for her mum was filled a little by my friendship.
There was a lot more to her story, however, and over the months that followed it all came out. She was from Iran, which had been taken over by the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or Supreme Leader, after its king was deposed. The country was in a state of war with the west and the Iran-Iraq war followed.
The family sold up and fled to Turkey to escape the compulsory service by boys of age 12-14 who were forced to march in front of tanks to clear land mines. This lady’s brother was reaching that age. In Turkey he was sent to Sweden with people smugglers. She came to Australia with her husband, who had temporary residency, and the father went back to Iran.
The mother, however, was trapped in Turkey. She lived in constant fear of the police who had a policy of rounding up escapees from Iran and selling them back at the border. When this was presented to me the difficult situation seemed impossible to resolve as many had tried to get her out of the country without success.
My reincarnation and link to the Spirit of the Universe gave me a channel of communication and it was God who took over to free her and get her safely to Australia. It took time but she finally made it onto a flight that reunited her and her daughter after years of stress and separation.
When she arrived she had a paralysis down her left side due to a stroke that occurred on her way to Ankara and the Australian Embassy. As I touched her she immediately raised her arm above her head as the healing took place. The Spirit had already given her a dream of this happening and she was overjoyed.
The bottom line is that we don’t know who these people are who are forced to flee tyranny and persecution, but God does. Instead of looking upon them as strangers we need to embrace them and delve into their stories. Many are fearful of their new country, wherever that is, because of what has been driven into them from their homeland.
Racial prejudice is a state of mind and it needs to be overcome. Once we know these people and interact with them they have a chance to settle down and become friends.
