Hey Cameron…I’m reading At Work In The Ruins (Douglas Hine) right now and this meditation aligns with the case he presents about how individuals and communities outsource decision (and safety) making. Indigenous peoples (&Saint Francis) offer another way. Thanks friend 🙏❤️
Thank you. One of my best memories is visiting the statue of St Francis and the Wolf on a little knoll behind the church in Gubbio. There were fresh flowers in his upstretched hand. If we all could be more like St Francis, our souls and the world would be better for it.
Thank you for this. Planning to share it in my weekly newsletter today. So important, both on an individual level (individual relationships) and also in thinking about how it applies to larger systems within our society. Thank you for consistently bringing together useful metaphor and practical action ideas that feel doable, hopeful, and meaningful. It's a gift to all of us.
In away of utopia that would be the way, however, in our present world we don’t have that leadership. We were supposedly shown the way but, we don’t honour/follow it. We’ve never truly gotten past the first sin of being. Again, hopefully, we will rise above this and the cost is and will be great. The deeper the abyss becomes the higher the climb out or through it will be. Will we survive???
For me, what I’m sensing in your response is a desire for good leadership. And perhaps being the leader we wish to have in the world is the only safe and inclusive way forward. I’m really noticing how outsourcing so much of my life has contributed to my disharmony. This is such a big topic. Thank you for raising it. 🙏❤️
Thank you Cameron, As always your message is deeply personal and completely universal. I am in the midst of wildly-swinging moods and attitudes with the church I am a member of. A divide has been created by a few blamer-hater people who are working to deepen the schism (probably hoping that will somehow cause us all to agree to shoot the wolf, i.e. fire the pastor). I have fallen prey to their division-mongering and tending to blame them! even though I know that is not in any way going to help us find healing. But I certainly do SEE these people - and their fear that underlies their (in my opinion abominable) behavior. And I'm in fear too. What will happen to us? How is this for our wonderful queer pastor? How do I become a force for healing - or at least a quiet voice? Your meditatons are powerful medicine, especially as they always provide ideas, suggestions, questions and prayers! You are a huge blessing to us all. Thank you.
This is a beautiful perspective. What we have done and continue to do (i.e world wars, civil wars, "police actions", etc.) have not worked, we continue to be a world of violence and subjugation. Time for something new.
Hey Cameron…I’m reading At Work In The Ruins (Douglas Hine) right now and this meditation aligns with the case he presents about how individuals and communities outsource decision (and safety) making. Indigenous peoples (&Saint Francis) offer another way. Thanks friend 🙏❤️
Wow. You always give me much to ponder. Thank you.
Really important especially in the light of escalating violence. Thank you. This line right here from your prayer:
Do not let fear decide who we become.
Thank you for this enlightening story. It gives us a lot to think about.
Thank you. One of my best memories is visiting the statue of St Francis and the Wolf on a little knoll behind the church in Gubbio. There were fresh flowers in his upstretched hand. If we all could be more like St Francis, our souls and the world would be better for it.
Thank you for this. Planning to share it in my weekly newsletter today. So important, both on an individual level (individual relationships) and also in thinking about how it applies to larger systems within our society. Thank you for consistently bringing together useful metaphor and practical action ideas that feel doable, hopeful, and meaningful. It's a gift to all of us.
In away of utopia that would be the way, however, in our present world we don’t have that leadership. We were supposedly shown the way but, we don’t honour/follow it. We’ve never truly gotten past the first sin of being. Again, hopefully, we will rise above this and the cost is and will be great. The deeper the abyss becomes the higher the climb out or through it will be. Will we survive???
For me, what I’m sensing in your response is a desire for good leadership. And perhaps being the leader we wish to have in the world is the only safe and inclusive way forward. I’m really noticing how outsourcing so much of my life has contributed to my disharmony. This is such a big topic. Thank you for raising it. 🙏❤️
Thank you Cameron, As always your message is deeply personal and completely universal. I am in the midst of wildly-swinging moods and attitudes with the church I am a member of. A divide has been created by a few blamer-hater people who are working to deepen the schism (probably hoping that will somehow cause us all to agree to shoot the wolf, i.e. fire the pastor). I have fallen prey to their division-mongering and tending to blame them! even though I know that is not in any way going to help us find healing. But I certainly do SEE these people - and their fear that underlies their (in my opinion abominable) behavior. And I'm in fear too. What will happen to us? How is this for our wonderful queer pastor? How do I become a force for healing - or at least a quiet voice? Your meditatons are powerful medicine, especially as they always provide ideas, suggestions, questions and prayers! You are a huge blessing to us all. Thank you.
This is a beautiful perspective. What we have done and continue to do (i.e world wars, civil wars, "police actions", etc.) have not worked, we continue to be a world of violence and subjugation. Time for something new.
The story insists that how we respond matters as much as what we oppose.”
Thank you for this very pertinent homily.
Path out of threats, war?
Meet wolf, a la St. Francis.
Face, feed, compromise.
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Pact with Brother Wolf:
try to understand, fess up,
befriend our shadow?