Piloting Faith: The Center is Not Holding

Our world feels like it is falling apart. We don't know what to count on. We don't know who we can trust. We don't know what to believe. We don't know where to go or how to be safe getting there. We don't know if our elections are valid. We don't know if we are infected with a virus. We don't know if our companies will survive. We don't know what this trauma is doing to our children. 

William Butler Yates wrote a poem called "The Second Coming" where is penned the famous lines:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst   
Are full of passionate intensity.

The center is not holding. All that we trusted - institutions, leaders, corporations, multinational agreements, democracy, capitalism - it's all falling apart. 

When the center does not hold, we instinctively turn to the Center that always holds. We seek God, the One that was, is, and will always be. But we come with new questions because we know that the institutions of faith that got us to this point cannot take us forward. So we seek the Sacred anew. 

Some of us were made for this moment. You have been waiting for the center to fall apart so that the margins could finally be seen. You sense the way forward. You speak of new worlds. You lead with vision; you never lead with fear. 

Listen for the new visions emerging around you. The center is not holding, and the Center always holds. We can trust in the "falling apart" because we can trust the Source that rebuilds. 

We are in this together,

Cameron