Another beautiful meditation. As I said in my note, this reminds me of one of my most favorite Albert Einstein quotes: "The world that we have made as a result of the thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them."
Getting outside of our existing paradigm is always tough, and always necessary.
Your words carry the Wisdom that is necessary to navigate through these times remembering the blessing that is woven into the story being written. Love never fails no matter how things appear moment by moment at any given time.
Thanks and blessings, dear Cameron+. As I read with you, it seems to me that yours is an articulate, energetic complement of another well-known and broadly applicable passage: 'Be still; know I Am, God' - my gloss. You illustrate the challenge of living amid the P/present, in holy love with living O/ones, or being distracted by the past or future or both. As co-stewards, potentially skilled caretakers with G-d, we are hounded by the need to fix and prepare. We strive for Order in a time of Disorder :-).All this dynamic reality also recapitulates what we might learn from Holy Week and Pentecost, and find in the Story, not least the canonic and non-canonic gospels....We ARE all in This together, interlaced and entangled and immersed in holy love as in our interactive atmosphere - we breathing oxygen, our co-creatures breathing carbon dioxide. This should be a dance, not a war.
Thank you Cameron. Your vision is broad and deep. It brings to mind Jesus' short parable of the Mustard Seed: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.” It reminds me of a line from Yeats' dark prophetic poem The Second Coming: "the falcon can no longer hear the falconer....the center will not hold...the beast slouching towards Bethlehem to be born...." a sign of what you describe as 'collapse'..........
Cameron, you write : "Trust that presence is a form of care, and that deep change often emerges when people feel seen, not managed." I walk with this word "care" for some time now. Even though I consider myself to be a caring person, I wrestle with its shadow : how there is little value for caring, how those of us whose professions wrap around care struggle to monetize it because we too have bills to pay, how caring can closely become fatigue and burnout and then what? how? knowing that care requires self-nourishment and I still don't know what that really means .....
Your writing, reflections and a prayer remain balm for my very broken heart. Thank you 🙏
Another beautiful meditation. As I said in my note, this reminds me of one of my most favorite Albert Einstein quotes: "The world that we have made as a result of the thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them."
Getting outside of our existing paradigm is always tough, and always necessary.
Thank you so much, dear Cameron.
Your words carry the Wisdom that is necessary to navigate through these times remembering the blessing that is woven into the story being written. Love never fails no matter how things appear moment by moment at any given time.
Thanks and blessings, dear Cameron+. As I read with you, it seems to me that yours is an articulate, energetic complement of another well-known and broadly applicable passage: 'Be still; know I Am, God' - my gloss. You illustrate the challenge of living amid the P/present, in holy love with living O/ones, or being distracted by the past or future or both. As co-stewards, potentially skilled caretakers with G-d, we are hounded by the need to fix and prepare. We strive for Order in a time of Disorder :-).All this dynamic reality also recapitulates what we might learn from Holy Week and Pentecost, and find in the Story, not least the canonic and non-canonic gospels....We ARE all in This together, interlaced and entangled and immersed in holy love as in our interactive atmosphere - we breathing oxygen, our co-creatures breathing carbon dioxide. This should be a dance, not a war.
Thank you Cameron. Your vision is broad and deep. It brings to mind Jesus' short parable of the Mustard Seed: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.” It reminds me of a line from Yeats' dark prophetic poem The Second Coming: "the falcon can no longer hear the falconer....the center will not hold...the beast slouching towards Bethlehem to be born...." a sign of what you describe as 'collapse'..........
Cameron, you write : "Trust that presence is a form of care, and that deep change often emerges when people feel seen, not managed." I walk with this word "care" for some time now. Even though I consider myself to be a caring person, I wrestle with its shadow : how there is little value for caring, how those of us whose professions wrap around care struggle to monetize it because we too have bills to pay, how caring can closely become fatigue and burnout and then what? how? knowing that care requires self-nourishment and I still don't know what that really means .....
Your writing, reflections and a prayer remain balm for my very broken heart. Thank you 🙏