Thank you. It’s really helpful to name our feelings. That way we can better understand that we are not our feelings, but are a container for them. We can let them go, but first we say hello to them. Hello anger, I see you there. I understand you. I understand why you are here with me now. I have compassion for you. It is a difficult moment that we are facing together.
I find your essay and meditation to be 100% on target! We certainly need to be reminded that anger is so often a covert way of dealing with loss and grief. Sadly our patriarchal culture does not allow much grief; grief expresses vulnerability and hurt, which is anathema to “manliness.” So even funerals are morphed into “celebrations of life.” We need to join together for both expressions of the specialness the person has had for us. And now, when we divide into political sides and religious sides, we would do well to mourn together the losses we feel over the shattering of the reverence we have felt as the myths that have held us together (such as “we are a Christian nation”) break apart. Thank you for your healing presence.
This is really quite magnificent. I am a retired hospice social worker, now a volunteer and am well acquainted with grief…a good reminder that we are grieving different things and can therefore not grieve together. Richard Rohr says that if our grief is not transformed it will be transmitted. That, I believe, is what we are witnessing all around us. I for one am doing all I know how to do in order to grow, protect and maintain the equanimity I have - no easy task under our present circumstances. Thank you so so much for this post - good timing! 🙏🏽♥️
I'm sending your meditation to everyone I know. Thank you for so eloquently putting into words what so many of us are feeling!
Excellent meditation. Thank you, Cameron, for your insightfulness and these words today. Grateful for your steadfast love.
Thank you. It’s really helpful to name our feelings. That way we can better understand that we are not our feelings, but are a container for them. We can let them go, but first we say hello to them. Hello anger, I see you there. I understand you. I understand why you are here with me now. I have compassion for you. It is a difficult moment that we are facing together.
I always say “God Help Us”. However,as a race, we need to start helping ourselves.
HE has given us the tools, heart and knowledge, we just have to use them for the good of ALL!!!
I find your essay and meditation to be 100% on target! We certainly need to be reminded that anger is so often a covert way of dealing with loss and grief. Sadly our patriarchal culture does not allow much grief; grief expresses vulnerability and hurt, which is anathema to “manliness.” So even funerals are morphed into “celebrations of life.” We need to join together for both expressions of the specialness the person has had for us. And now, when we divide into political sides and religious sides, we would do well to mourn together the losses we feel over the shattering of the reverence we have felt as the myths that have held us together (such as “we are a Christian nation”) break apart. Thank you for your healing presence.
This is really quite magnificent. I am a retired hospice social worker, now a volunteer and am well acquainted with grief…a good reminder that we are grieving different things and can therefore not grieve together. Richard Rohr says that if our grief is not transformed it will be transmitted. That, I believe, is what we are witnessing all around us. I for one am doing all I know how to do in order to grow, protect and maintain the equanimity I have - no easy task under our present circumstances. Thank you so so much for this post - good timing! 🙏🏽♥️
I went to Radnor High School with a Meg Wheatley in the 1980s. Did she?