Generous

When I feel overwhelmed by the news of the world, disturbed by what is hard as stone….I turn to beauty.

So many of us are negotiating a great deal of worry and anxiety as we navigate a constant stream of disturbing news that is essentially designed to keep us afraid and enraged. But have courage. “Be not afraid” doesn’t mean we won’t have fear or deep concerns. It means that we don’t have to “be”our fears. We can be grounded in love, we can be strengthened by beauty, we can be confident in the goodness we still experience all around us.

I’ll be writing more about complicated task of holding the tension of democracy in my Sunday post, but for today…..I lean into yes and I lean into beauty.

This is what’s been on my mind. Its a poem called “Generous” I wrote in response to a poem by Hafiz called “I Rain”.