Yesterday was a hard day for a lot of people. It was an emotional day for me. I went to bed knowing that Trump was going to be elected. I had a conversation with my son reminding him that we believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience and not the other way around. Reminding him that this doesn’t mean that we don’t experience and feel all of our human emotions, as a matter of fact it may require it.
I was talking to someone that I elder and she was reminding me that when I say things like nothing has changed that some might experience that as me being disconnected. Some might feel that everything has changed. I can and do honor that. I also choose in this moment not to support us giving away our own power. I believe that community's job is to remind you of the truth of who you are. In these moments especially I want to remind you that you are more powerful than you believe. I want to remind you that fear lives in the past and in the future but never in the present moment. I want to remind you (as Howard Thurman says in Jesus and the Disinherited) that you can only oppress a people when they are more afraid of you than they are of the divine.
In this moment…
I want to support you in reclaiming your own agency
I want to reaffirm the importance of grief and grieving in community
I want to remind us that we aren't alone
And if we are lonely we can reach out and invite others in, we are all waiting to be chosen
I want to remind us to turn to one another, again, and again, and again
I want us to know that we can rest, slow down, and take care of ourselves
I want to remind us that every wound comes with a gift
I want us to know that the external is reflecting what wants to be healed in the internal
I want to remind us that internal power is more important than external power
I know thats a lot. I know that we are in the middle of great complexity. I know that love in the end of the day has always won out or we wouldn’t still be here.
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Power without love is reckless and abusive and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at it’s best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
But most of all I want to remind you that you are not only loved, and lovable, but you are love itself.
Quanita
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