People are often afraid of things they know little about. This is evident in the way animals are killed rather than understood. It is also the reason wars happen and military personnel can more easily kill their enemies if they don’t meet them on a personal level. However, living in a multicultural society is difficult unless one breaks those prejudices and joins the community.
In Australia we have a situation where people are welcomed from all over the world. They are accepted and helped by both governments and people. For many of these immigrants it is difficult to assimilate because they bring racial prejudice from their countries of origin.
This is brainwashed from birth by parents who live in fear and are mostly mistreated by the governments of their own countries. They can’t change until something big happens that forces them to accept that not everyone is the same as what they left behind.
I realized this some time ago when the Spirit led me to speak with a woman at a local mall. She was sitting alone on a bench when I walked over and started a conversation. She seemed a little taken aback at first, but then she warmed up to me. When her husband arrived, he was delighted that we were having a conversation and he asked me to be her friend.
Yes! That’s just what God wanted too. It turned out that she was pregnant and in her mother’s absence she asked me to be in labor. For some time, it happened that the empty place in her heart for her mother was somewhat filled with my friendship.
However, there was much more to his story, and in the months that followed it all came to light. She was from Iran, which had been taken over by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or paramount leader, after her king was deposed. The country was in a state of war with the West and the Iran-Iraq war followed.
The family sold and fled to Turkey to escape compulsory service for 12-14 year olds who were forced to march in front of tanks to clear landmines. This lady’s brother was reaching that age. In Turkey he was sent to Sweden with human traffickers. She came to Australia with her husband, who was a temporary resident, and her father returned to Iran.
The mother, however, was trapped in Turkey. She lived in constant fear of the police, who had a policy of rounding up fugitives from Iran and selling them at the border. When she was introduced 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 with the Spirit of the Universe gave me a channel of communication and it was God who took charge to free her and bring her safely to Australia. He took time, but he finally made it to a flight that reunited her and her daughter after years of stress and separation.
When he arrived, he was paralyzed on his left side due to a stroke that occurred on his way to Ankara and the Australian Embassy. When she touched her, she immediately raised her arm above her head as the healing took place. Her 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 seeing them as strangers, we need to embrace them and delve into their stories. Many are afraid of their new country, wherever it is, because of what has been instilled in them from their homeland.
Racial prejudice is a state of mind and needs to be overcome. Once we meet these people and interact with them, they have the opportunity to settle down and become friends.