Dear Lady Wisdom,

I would like to first thank you for freeing me from the chains of ignorance. Though there are many thing I still do not know, you have made me wise enough to realize that I do not know everything. This is one of your best gifts and blessings you can offer to humanity. Today I come to seek your counsel in regards to a pressing issue which we all seem to be dealing with: How do we make the world a better place, when all we see is negativity? Those who wallow in their ignorance, and misinformation attempt to claim they have received all your teachings and are too quick to claim the lives of others. They say through a religious, spiritual, moral, or ethic notion they have conversed with you and learned your deepest desires. I know this cannot be true. So I ask of you Lady Wisdom, make us wise enough that we may learn to admit what we don't know. Let us strive to learn from one another. Let us see the things that are available to learn from other communities, cultures, and groups. Allow us the ability to question our current view of each other. Teach us the way of thinking that we may realize that each group has good and bad in it. Give us the strength to attempt to understand others and at the same time know without a doubt we are not losing ourselves. Help us to entertain the natures of others with an open-mind so we may understand them fully, though we may choose to politely excuse ourselves from accepting these tendencies as our own.

Dear Lady Beauty,

Help us to see the wonderful things that lay within each other. It is very easy now-a-days to turn on the tv, facebook, or any other media outlet and see the evil we do to each other with great ease. This is quite disturbing. here is where you must rescue us. The other three will help us learn about others, treat them fairly, and help fight for their equality, but only you can help us see the beauty in diversity. If each star were exactly the same in size, shape, distance from us, and brightness the night sky would become a bore. We are able to form constellations, and lose ourselves in the openness of the starry-night because of the differences from star to star, quadrant to quadrant. We must learn from you, and only you, how to see each other as the beautiful people that we can become. With that faith in one another we can move toward the goal of becoming the best person we each can be individually. Because of the vision of beauty you offer us, we can become great individuals, and thus a great community collectively.

Dear Lady Justice,

Let us start here first my lady: To each of those people that you impact enough to dedicate their life to making sure that you are shown to one and another alike, I am thankful. For every paramedic, police officer, lawyer, judge, veteran, current service member, firefighter, protester, speaker, teacher that spend a part of their precious short time on earth in an effort to bring your name to others in the community I am thankful. I believe it is of the utmost importance that you help us to realize that not every cop is bad, and in the same breath that not every protester is bad. Unfortunately we, as humanity, tend to paint in broad strokes and can easily fall into the trap of believing or developing stereotypes. By this I mean that we tend, against our better judgement, to allow one rotten apple spoil the bunch. Though this is not our wishes, it seems like it comes easily to us. We need you to take a stand and show us that the people listed above have more in common than their admiration for you: their work is difficult and they openly accept it. Each of these members of our society are put in a situation where it would be easy to value their life above those they are attempting to help. They do not though. They take the difficult path and fight on with others in mind above themselves.

Dear Lady Liberty,

As a son of yours who admittedly has not known the courage to serve you I ask of your forgiveness. As the son who at times have taken you for granted, allow me a chance to apologize. I have known of you from birth, yet I have never truly known you. Stories have been told of a great statue which you inhabit where you look down upon your new sons and daughters, along with your returning children to welcome them. You have stood proudly as a symbol of the power of the country you have lent yourself to. I know that I am not entitled to any favors from you, but I must ask for your help. Though I know you may readily reject it for my sake, I ask that you first view the request for those who it will impact. I ask of you Lady Liberty, please look down upon this land and with empathetic eyes view those who know of you, but who have never tasted your sweet name. Those who work non-stop to provide for others, yet are held down because of one reason or another. Those who do not seek pity, or a hand-out, but a hand-up. You already give so much of yourself, I shutter to ask you to offer more, but I will do so. Show us that our race, gender, religion, status, location, sexuality, education, nor the amount of paper we hold with a dead man's face on it makes our life any more qualified than another's to be free.