today’s journey is surreal… it’s election day in the usa and i am still blown away… more than ever, i want to open this contemplation with a psalm i love sharing on election days…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(The Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

i feel in this moment of crisis = danger/hidden opportunity, i want to utter this song again and again, to infuse the cosmos with a passion for justice overflowing our one heart with truth and compassion… all over the planet there’s so much suffering, all over the planet there’s so much love… our work is cut out for us… to summon every bit of courage and stand in love and stand for love again and again…

will you join me in this moment, in every moment in a smile (start my internal love engine) and breathe in deeply the boundless love all around us informing us every moment is a teacher with a healing gift of grace for love is the most powerful medicine, the most powerful energy of all…

once we’ve put on our own oxygen mask, we can generously share this eternally renewable energy source with everyone and everything we encounter and meet along our way…

may we all be bridge-builders, menders of brokenness, givers of beauty for wounded places… because we know in our heart in order to be whole, we must accept each of our parts as the beloved, yes each of the trillions and trillions of threads of the web of life…