“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.~
in these turbulent times, i feel so much the need to re-member the astonishing light of being on a moment by moment basis and am so greatful for everyone’s holding the space of light, love, compassion and generosity… today, on this national day of mourning in the usa, thanks be for all the beings of great courage with the strength to be in this moment of great pain with hearts wide open working for the liberation of us all, holding the dream of peace prevailing in a world that works for all with eyes wide open to the tremendous amount of work required to get us there…
and now from John O’Donohue, a blessing to help us in those moments of weariness, loneliness, overwhelm and anxiety; may these words comfort as so many words today spoken in so many grieving circles have lifted my spirit as proof that so many are truly walking the talk of we are all in this together with no one free until we are all free…
“When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,
Time takes on the strain until it breaks;
Then all the unattended stress falls in
On the mind like an endless, increasing weight,
The light in the mind becomes dim.
Things you could take in your stride before
Now become laborsome events of will.
Weariness invades your spirit.
Gravity begins falling inside you,
Dragging down every bone.
The tide you never valued has gone out.
And you are marooned on unsure ground.
Something within you has closed down;
And you cannot push yourself back to life.
You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
There is nothing else to do now but rest
And patiently learn to receive the self
You have forsaken for the race of days.
At first your thinking will darken
And sadness take over like listless weather.
The flow of unwept tears will frighten you.
You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gentle with yourself…”
may we embody the generosity of brother sun, the imagination of sister moon, the grounded interconnectedness of the standing talls and the flowing nature of oceanic sky trusting that love always finds a way and justice will roll down with clean-sing revolutionary action….