May
we all be committed to the courageous work of waking up,
strengthening our hearts, speaking the truth, standing up against
injustice, and uniting to alleviate the suffering within ourselves,
our families and communities, our nation and all across the Earth.
There
are many of us who, like I once was, are often asleep and
disconnected from our deep capacity for compassion and kindness,
vision and wisdom, caring and generosity, courage and love. And there
are many of us who are bravely pulling back and emerging from the
many layers of that which obstructs the clear vision of our hearts
and souls.
May
we all claim the beauty and love embodied in the wholeness of who we
truly are. Our world will awaken, heal, and be transformed as we do.
Love is who we are. — Molly
By
JOHN PAVLOVITZ
Where’d
all the good people go? I’ve been changing channels I don’t see
them on the TV shows. —Jack Johnson
At
times like these it can seem like the darkness is winning.
You
can look around and simply be overtaken by all that seems so not
right in the world; the hatred and bitterness and the steady, rising
tide of discord creeping just above the reach of your craned neck, as
you tread frantically, seeking in quick, shallow breaths the last bit
of air left.
You
can begin to sink beneath it all, wondering whether or not there are
any good people still here. You can easily drown in that despair.
Take
heart, dear friend.
It
is not that good people are gone, it is just that too many of them
have gone silent.
They,
like you have watched this tragic chapter unfolding and feel they are
powerless to do anything. They, like you feel alone and hopeless and
outnumbered. They too are holding their breath and covering their
eyes and waiting for the good people to show up and twist the plot.
Stop
waiting already.
You
are
the
good people.
You
are the one who can step from the shadows and tell the darkness that
it has had the run of the house for long enough. You can send the
brilliant floodlight of hope streaming into the places where it had
been vanquished.
It
is only a matter of opening your mouth and releasing the truest of
your truth without fear or hesitation or decorum.
Whenever
our world has lost its way and lost its humanity and succumbed to
terror, it has happened when people of decency and compassion refused
to raise their voices, when they believed the lie that their silence
was of no consequence, when they became saddened but complicit
spectators.
These
are such days, friend.
In
these days it is not enough to be good. You must be both good and
loud.
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