I stand with the people of the Ukraine today. I join those in Europe and all over the world who never thought they would see such a thing again in their lifetimes.
When you read this, please take a minute, hold all those lives…the children, the infants, the young people in school, the teachers and store clerks and mechanics and painters and cellists and parents and grandparents, the sick with covid and the nurses who are still caring for them. Consider every life…like yours like mine, like your children, like everyone you know or meet each day, beloved and aquaintance and stranger. Think of them, every soul who woke up yesterday with bombs falling and surrounded by a hungry evil that rises out of the bottomless wanting for power.
Consider your most cherish treasure, the crease worn photograph of your grandmother, the statue or trees in the park where you sit and enjoy an autumn day, your books or instruments, the beautiful courthouse square, the church you attended for years, your own home, your parents home, your neighbor and sisters home. Think of all those cherished things gone in a moment of collision between the beautiful and sacred, with the defiled and broken.
Practice After your moment of quiet and communion.
(because collective caring does shift things in us and in the world)
Consider these things today with me, humbly, with love and compassion and your most strong and tender spirit. Bow your head and be quiet for a full minute. If you pray, say a prayer. Or if you sometimes feel something nameless and luminous and connecting in the world..send your longing for a better more peaceful world into what connects us, and shines within and around us, which can hold all that is good, and can carry our grief and longing with with infinite tenderness.
Say two words or two sentances aloud…
One for your grief and solidarity and longing.
One for your conviction to personally live today expressing the peace and kindness you most want to see in the world.
These were mine - but they can just be one word
1. Sending my love and care to all who long and grieve and weep
2. Be centered in all that is worthy, decent and sacred and yes, today may I be the change I want to see in the world.
Please write your two words or sentences
in the comments on my page.
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VIDEO
Here is a link to a beautiful video sent by ServiceSpace and The Daily Good this morning. Its very powerful. Kseniya Simonva is a performance artist, reminding us of the human toll of war. DailyGood.org - Ukraine's Kseniya Simonova: Weaving Stories with Light & Sand
Poetry for those close and far away….
hope. - promise
Peace, Light, & Love
Tikkun Olam, Refuah Shlema.....
I feel a string pulling my awareness to Ukraine and Eastern Europe. My grandmother was born in Ukraine and came to the US as a young child. My entire DNA is Eastern European. I pray for all humanity particularly those in imminent danger. Namaste!