Thanks for this, Steve, Earlier this morning I was reflecting with some anger on our southern neighbour's current unpredictability and reviewing potential upcoming conversations of that attitude with southern kin-in-law on our upcoming trip. May I be tempered in my conversations by remembering to love and love still.
I think I wrote this, partially in response to my own creeping anger; when I think of the cruelty and the ignorance, or the dismissal of that cruelty by some Americans I know, I churn. Unhelpful and exacerbating. I turn, then, to the gospels and some wise guides, and reflect. This piece is the result.
"To accept and start each morning with a prayer, each encounter with hope, and inject our own circles with what is deeply right, and so confront this present bleakness without a shade of violence." I have copied this out and put it where I will see it daily, Stephen. "...confront this present bleakness without a shade of violence." Yes, may it be so in me.
Amen!
Thank you, Marcia.
Thanks for this, Steve, Earlier this morning I was reflecting with some anger on our southern neighbour's current unpredictability and reviewing potential upcoming conversations of that attitude with southern kin-in-law on our upcoming trip. May I be tempered in my conversations by remembering to love and love still.
And Happy Canada Day to you and yours!
Thanks so much, Sam!
I think I wrote this, partially in response to my own creeping anger; when I think of the cruelty and the ignorance, or the dismissal of that cruelty by some Americans I know, I churn. Unhelpful and exacerbating. I turn, then, to the gospels and some wise guides, and reflect. This piece is the result.
The centre holds.
Yes to all you have beautifully said here - may we love it still
Thank you, Sue! And happy Canada Day to you and your family!
"To accept and start each morning with a prayer, each encounter with hope, and inject our own circles with what is deeply right, and so confront this present bleakness without a shade of violence." I have copied this out and put it where I will see it daily, Stephen. "...confront this present bleakness without a shade of violence." Yes, may it be so in me.
This, I realize, through your words of response, is why I write. A deep thank you, Ann.