I am always thirsty and grateful for your words. Their purity, their drinkability, and their nourishment provide grace to my days.
And today you shared a fact with me that I did not know. It came as a huge surprise, even a shock, though not surprising given the current configuration of things.
What I love, love, love, is your line: "Fear may rule the sacred ground for a season, but love always reclaims it in the end." What I appreciate is, in saying this, you reveal that you are a stand for the future. A stand for Possibility. Not having anything to do with "hope," what you say is true, and what you say is real. What you say is so. "Love always reclaims it in the end."
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for bringing such pure waters to the community. Indeed, "we are in this together." The first time I read that -- well, now it shows up as a mantra -- my heart took a leap. And a new sense of Community was born. And now, still, my heart lets out a resounding "YES!"
Amba, it does my heart good to find you here with your deep appreciation for Cameron and her message, still standing for what you've always stood for (since we met in the Berkeley Oakland Area Center) -- love, hope and possibility. be well, Joseph
Idolatry - putting something else in the place that actually is occupied by (what my lineage calls triune) G-d, or the conviction that nothing rules (I think nihilism is a variant of idolatry) - is the root of (what my culture calls) entropy, and all its preliminaries: fear, rage, shame, hatred, death, exile, meaninglessness, party spirit, murder, suicide, hardness of heart and discouragement; the bright parallel toward apotheosis is holy love, loving holiness - communion, community, welcome, inclusion, joy, oneing. So this is NOT about American politics or bureaucracy (as I read it) - it's about Advent and awareness of the rising and fulness of light (solstices north and south).... Your thoughts and perspectives, friends, are welcome, whatever they may be. Speaking once more from my own lineage and place in this circle, the Lamb, Light, Love wins; it is not a walkover. G-d bless us, every one.
Funny how authoritarians keep telling us they’re the strong ones while panicking over holidays that celebrate liberation. If your power can’t survive Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, maybe you’re not a leader, you’re a lawn ornament with security clearance.
What you wrote lands because it names the thing under the thing. This isn’t just policy or symbolism. It’s the theology of fear trying to cosplay as divine order. And fear always throws a tantrum when love starts clearing a little space.
Blessed be the ones who remember that sacred ground doesn’t change allegiance just because a bureaucracy edits a calendar. The soil knows who bled for freedom. The land keeps the receipts.
Thank you for your painfully powerful comment. My mantra, "Life is not a spectator sport," nudges me to observe and get involved. These are very tender days with flawed leadership at the head of our nation. We can ill afford to settle back or settle in as spectators or observers of what is taking place in our time and in our name. We must embrace the tenets of Jesus Christ and wrap our hands around each other in solidarity with truth, justice, and righteousness. We must extend ourselves to each other with a mandate to express and embody radical love. We must dare to embrace the diversity of humanity with the awareness and acceptance that God intentionally created the world and the people on this planet with differences for the purpose of expanding and extending our innate ability to love one another. We are here together to observe, embrace, and affirm Divine Intentionality to bring differences together in close proximity to extend and expand our appreciation for humanity and to love one another.
Cameron, a deep bow of gratitude for the meditation today. It is so easy to ignore and lose heart in the deluge of mean-spirited actions of the current regime. And to be reminded that beneath their power madness and cruelty, even they are redeemable and that my damning them while resisting their evil is be avoided, tempting though it be.
You are more than amazing! Your words and your work reach in to my very soul!! Just keep “amazing” me and many others, I’m sure. Blessings to you this day!
You are a brilliant and remarkable writer and leader and theologian. Thank you.
Love the spiritual practice. Thank you.
I am always thirsty and grateful for your words. Their purity, their drinkability, and their nourishment provide grace to my days.
And today you shared a fact with me that I did not know. It came as a huge surprise, even a shock, though not surprising given the current configuration of things.
What I love, love, love, is your line: "Fear may rule the sacred ground for a season, but love always reclaims it in the end." What I appreciate is, in saying this, you reveal that you are a stand for the future. A stand for Possibility. Not having anything to do with "hope," what you say is true, and what you say is real. What you say is so. "Love always reclaims it in the end."
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for bringing such pure waters to the community. Indeed, "we are in this together." The first time I read that -- well, now it shows up as a mantra -- my heart took a leap. And a new sense of Community was born. And now, still, my heart lets out a resounding "YES!"
Amba, it does my heart good to find you here with your deep appreciation for Cameron and her message, still standing for what you've always stood for (since we met in the Berkeley Oakland Area Center) -- love, hope and possibility. be well, Joseph
Oh, Joe...it is SO GOOD to hear from you. Your own Loving Presence is always around both Don and me and has been all these years.
Idolatry - putting something else in the place that actually is occupied by (what my lineage calls triune) G-d, or the conviction that nothing rules (I think nihilism is a variant of idolatry) - is the root of (what my culture calls) entropy, and all its preliminaries: fear, rage, shame, hatred, death, exile, meaninglessness, party spirit, murder, suicide, hardness of heart and discouragement; the bright parallel toward apotheosis is holy love, loving holiness - communion, community, welcome, inclusion, joy, oneing. So this is NOT about American politics or bureaucracy (as I read it) - it's about Advent and awareness of the rising and fulness of light (solstices north and south).... Your thoughts and perspectives, friends, are welcome, whatever they may be. Speaking once more from my own lineage and place in this circle, the Lamb, Light, Love wins; it is not a walkover. G-d bless us, every one.
Funny how authoritarians keep telling us they’re the strong ones while panicking over holidays that celebrate liberation. If your power can’t survive Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, maybe you’re not a leader, you’re a lawn ornament with security clearance.
What you wrote lands because it names the thing under the thing. This isn’t just policy or symbolism. It’s the theology of fear trying to cosplay as divine order. And fear always throws a tantrum when love starts clearing a little space.
Blessed be the ones who remember that sacred ground doesn’t change allegiance just because a bureaucracy edits a calendar. The soil knows who bled for freedom. The land keeps the receipts.
Thank you for your painfully powerful comment. My mantra, "Life is not a spectator sport," nudges me to observe and get involved. These are very tender days with flawed leadership at the head of our nation. We can ill afford to settle back or settle in as spectators or observers of what is taking place in our time and in our name. We must embrace the tenets of Jesus Christ and wrap our hands around each other in solidarity with truth, justice, and righteousness. We must extend ourselves to each other with a mandate to express and embody radical love. We must dare to embrace the diversity of humanity with the awareness and acceptance that God intentionally created the world and the people on this planet with differences for the purpose of expanding and extending our innate ability to love one another. We are here together to observe, embrace, and affirm Divine Intentionality to bring differences together in close proximity to extend and expand our appreciation for humanity and to love one another.
Cameron, a deep bow of gratitude for the meditation today. It is so easy to ignore and lose heart in the deluge of mean-spirited actions of the current regime. And to be reminded that beneath their power madness and cruelty, even they are redeemable and that my damning them while resisting their evil is be avoided, tempting though it be.
You are more than amazing! Your words and your work reach in to my very soul!! Just keep “amazing” me and many others, I’m sure. Blessings to you this day!
“Wild Woman” aka Jane!
Another step to oblivion and there’s nobody screaming loudly…
Replacing “free days,”
like renaming, rewriting.
“Reveals everything.”
...
Afraid of freedom,
of truth, of losing power.
Fear equality.
...
“The earth... bears witness...
land remembers... justice,” love.
Time to reclaim ground.