Love, for the World

In the mailbox this Memorial Day morning...

Thinking about our untimely dead is hard enough, but many of us are haunted by the holes those deaths rip forever in the social fabric: the discoveries not made, the problems not solved, the marriages not celebrated, the babies not born.

We know only what we may have been told: about decent men and women who did what they could and gave up not only their live's but also their future to protect American democracy against the spread of fascism the threat of which we somehow face in each generation. — A thought posted by Heather Cox Richardson

This is what I want:

For all of us to learn to see, with our eyes wide open, how best to be healers and transformers; to really see, to fully awaken, to the hot-mess times we are in and to the incredible power we have to love ourselves into wellness. . . .

I want us open to The Way of the Watercourse – its revelation – not afraid of it, and open to the ways that it will provoke us to believe assiduously in how lovable we each are, and in the love between us and among us because, actually, believing is seeing.

– adapted and edited from Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis' post today on Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations.

“....we are caught between a sense of impending collapse and psychic paralysis in acknowledging it....We care...At the heart of our despair is our love for the world.” – Joanna Macy