welcome to this week’s installment of showing us the astonishing light of being… in these days, can we have too many reminders of all the lovingkindness occurring on the planet? far too often, the media inundates us with the old stories of fear and scarcity when, in truth, every moment there are more acts of compassion and the groundswell moves more and more in that direction…

#SanctuaryEverywhere is the simple idea of the American Friends Service Committee that everyday people can come together to keep each other safe that draws on the many traditions of peoples’ movements protecting targeted communities, like the Underground Railroad during slavery, Kindertransport during the Holocaust, the protection of conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War, the Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s and in more recent years, #NotOneMore, which has sheltered numerous undocumented immigrants from deportation…

thousand fold thanks for all the countless ways we are being beloved community…