After the election, life goes on.
In the words of ee cummings, “The single secret will still be man.” I have faith in those people who see the need for all of us to sit at the table. It is my responsibility as a human being to help support those who need it to the best of my ability. This has not changed, but maybe I see the need more acutely because people around me are scared and hurting.
I have gone back to a practice I lost along the way when I became complacent, and that is holding people in the Light. It is a Quaker practice, and I am a Quaker (an agnostic, but that’s possible in the Religious Society of Friends). I am holding my country in the light, those who oppose what I stand for as well as those I stand with. (I stand with those who are marginalized). Because holding someone in the Light does not mean they will prosper, it means the hope that they will see the Light.
I don’t know if I believe in God, but I believe that my holding in the Light creates changes in me so I can see where to work for good. I don’t know if I believe it will move other people. Yet I do it, not knowing what else to do.
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