“We are not living at the end of history. We are living at the end of a story that never told the whole truth.”
What a powerful statement! Amen and Amen! I’m a retired, middle school science teacher in rural South Carolina……. (A precarious position in the face of inerrant dogma) I learned, early on that loud proclamations gave no room for growth. Young people…… even the traumatized….. feel authenticity and respond to awe and wonder….. What a privilege to share lives in this setting!
Adults are a bit more difficult, and holding the tension and recognizing their humanity is challenging…..but not impossible.
Thank you Dear Cameron….. again and again, thank you. I am so encouraged by your life and by the growing community you foster.
I don't write my thanks often enough, but I am deeply grateful for your wisdom and clarity. Every. Single. Time. Your words are just what I need to hear in my heart, my mind, my resolve to then uplift ny community here in upstate NY. Thank you.
There were many powerful takeaways from your message today. Thank you for each and every one of them… especially this…
“We are being trained to collapse ambiguity into certainty, difference into threat, tension into a single, strong story. Plurality requires patience and humility. It asks us to live without simple villains and simple heroes. It demands that we hold multiple truths without erasing someone in the process.”
Thank you also for today’s Spiritual Practice which is particularly helpful. ❤️🙏❤️
This is one of the most powerful essays I have read in a long time. thank you. Should we survive this anguish, we have to start again at the beginning, and build, not grounded in the past that was mostly a lie, but in the truth. We must acknowledge, apologize, atone, reimagine and construct together a completely new future, together, not just by a few but by all. It will be agonizing like childbirth. I think it was Anne Lamott who said, " When a lot of difficult and chaotic things are going on all at once, it is to protect something fragile and beautiful that is trying to get itself born" (please correct the attribution it I am wrong as it's been attributed to the Dali Lama as well so I am not sure of the source but it is apt). When I think of the good and courageous people of Minneapolis, strangely I harken back to an episode of Game of Thrones, "Hodor". Alex, Renee and so many more, "Hold the Door." Minneapolis, you are our light in the dark, dark night.
As a journalist, I am acutely aware of the lack of complexiity that my profession often encourages. It is so easy to demonize those whose actions result in harm to others. But we must separate the conduct from the perpetrator.
Yes, thank you Cameron...absolutely spot-on observations. This is the call, to reach out "sudeways" and hold the hands of our friends, neighbors, families, communities, strangers...and build and build and build that social fabric that will hold the future.
You named the truth that Herr Trump is erasing: we are a nation built on theft, enslavement and genocide. It's hard to name it, yet until we confront our past, our future will not be different. I'm reading Jeremiah these days to understand God's perspective on a people who refused to admit the truth.
Oh Cameron you share with such clarity everyday but today touches me so deeply. You pulled so many important pieces together. Thank you so so much. I feel my body ease from just reading these truths.
We must always maintain the big picture perspective because absolutely nothing happens is isolation. The wisdom of grace that continues to create all reality will continue this embrace of love within any and every historical context of conditioning. Our faith rests here.
Brilliant, Rev. Trimble. I so appreciate your insights, your understanding of history, and your nerdiness. :-) Thank you for offering this to all with us. (I shared one of your essays with my pastor, BFJ, because it reminded me of him, and he shared his connection to you. How wonderful!)
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“We are not living at the end of history. We are living at the end of a story that never told the whole truth.”
What a powerful statement! Amen and Amen! I’m a retired, middle school science teacher in rural South Carolina……. (A precarious position in the face of inerrant dogma) I learned, early on that loud proclamations gave no room for growth. Young people…… even the traumatized….. feel authenticity and respond to awe and wonder….. What a privilege to share lives in this setting!
Adults are a bit more difficult, and holding the tension and recognizing their humanity is challenging…..but not impossible.
Thank you Dear Cameron….. again and again, thank you. I am so encouraged by your life and by the growing community you foster.
I don't write my thanks often enough, but I am deeply grateful for your wisdom and clarity. Every. Single. Time. Your words are just what I need to hear in my heart, my mind, my resolve to then uplift ny community here in upstate NY. Thank you.
There were many powerful takeaways from your message today. Thank you for each and every one of them… especially this…
“We are being trained to collapse ambiguity into certainty, difference into threat, tension into a single, strong story. Plurality requires patience and humility. It asks us to live without simple villains and simple heroes. It demands that we hold multiple truths without erasing someone in the process.”
Thank you also for today’s Spiritual Practice which is particularly helpful. ❤️🙏❤️
This is one of the most powerful essays I have read in a long time. thank you. Should we survive this anguish, we have to start again at the beginning, and build, not grounded in the past that was mostly a lie, but in the truth. We must acknowledge, apologize, atone, reimagine and construct together a completely new future, together, not just by a few but by all. It will be agonizing like childbirth. I think it was Anne Lamott who said, " When a lot of difficult and chaotic things are going on all at once, it is to protect something fragile and beautiful that is trying to get itself born" (please correct the attribution it I am wrong as it's been attributed to the Dali Lama as well so I am not sure of the source but it is apt). When I think of the good and courageous people of Minneapolis, strangely I harken back to an episode of Game of Thrones, "Hodor". Alex, Renee and so many more, "Hold the Door." Minneapolis, you are our light in the dark, dark night.
As a journalist, I am acutely aware of the lack of complexiity that my profession often encourages. It is so easy to demonize those whose actions result in harm to others. But we must separate the conduct from the perpetrator.
Yes, thank you Cameron...absolutely spot-on observations. This is the call, to reach out "sudeways" and hold the hands of our friends, neighbors, families, communities, strangers...and build and build and build that social fabric that will hold the future.
You named the truth that Herr Trump is erasing: we are a nation built on theft, enslavement and genocide. It's hard to name it, yet until we confront our past, our future will not be different. I'm reading Jeremiah these days to understand God's perspective on a people who refused to admit the truth.
Thank you. Spot on and helpful.
You articulated the words we have been thinking and so needed to hear at this time. Thank you.
This names something a lot of people feel but don’t have language for yet. Especially the way exhaustion gets mistaken for clarity.
I keep coming back to that line about simplicity as relief. It explains a lot without excusing anything.
Refusing closure feels like real work right now. Slow. Relational. Unimpressive. Probably necessary.
Oh Cameron you share with such clarity everyday but today touches me so deeply. You pulled so many important pieces together. Thank you so so much. I feel my body ease from just reading these truths.
We must always maintain the big picture perspective because absolutely nothing happens is isolation. The wisdom of grace that continues to create all reality will continue this embrace of love within any and every historical context of conditioning. Our faith rests here.
Two for the price of one: diagnosis and treatment. Blessings. 🙏🏻
Rude awakening, here...
if had felt safe here ‘til now.
Deluded no more.
...
Spiritually broke.
Chance for greed, hate take stronghold,
or love get to work.
Yes, a bit long and "nerdy", but excellent! Thank you.
Brilliant, Rev. Trimble. I so appreciate your insights, your understanding of history, and your nerdiness. :-) Thank you for offering this to all with us. (I shared one of your essays with my pastor, BFJ, because it reminded me of him, and he shared his connection to you. How wonderful!)