There are many others left off the above list, including the shooting at Reynold's High School outside of Portland last spring. Our children are symptom bearers of our larger culture, and some are so much more vulnerable than others to it's toxicity. My deep prayer is that our country, our world, and each and every one of us will work with increasing passion to heal and awaken and be brave and be a light in the darkness that all too often permeates what our children and all of us are exposed to.
There is a reason why school shootings - and so many other forms of violence - are so horrifically common in America. There is a reason why our culture manifests such suffering. Among my longtime teachers is Michael Meade, who illuminates how a culture is in deep trouble when it disrespects its youth and ignores its elders. This is a profound truth, and a tragic reality of what has so often become "normal" in America.
May we each lower our tolerance in ourselves and others for insensitivity, blame, shame, projections, polarizations, judgements, neglect and abuse, addictions, racism and all the "isms", separation and isolation, fear and greed, obscene redistribution of wealth upward, and all the overt and often subtle forms of violence that have been rooted in our culture since the earliest days of America that included genocide of native peoples and slavery and more.
We have much healing to do individually and collectively. May each of us hold the intention, and back it up with fierce compassionate action, that we are all in. We are all in! We each can increasingly find our part, our place, our role - no matter how large or small - to affect change, heartfelt change. We are all in this together. Another world is possible.
Let us love the children, all the children. Let us love and care about one another and all beings. This very much includes ourselves. We can only allow love in and bring love into the world to the degree that we have healed and opened our own hearts.
May we be courageous enough to deepen our commitment to the ongoing work of becoming and growing in consciousness. To the degree that we are asleep is the degree that each and every one of us causes harm to ourselves and others. To the degree that we illuminate, heal, and transform those dark places in our own hearts is the degree that we bring much needed healing to the world. We are all connected. We are all Sacred.
Bless us all ~ Molly
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Photo and quote below from George Takei
This is of course but a handful of the terrible tragedies
devastating our schools and communities.
Please share this, and let us first come together,
then find an answer, together.
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