We feel the strife, the fear, the pain and the suffering
throughout this world: those let in and those pushed out,
those ignored and those who hide, those fed and those who hunger.
We open, overwhelmed with stories, with images, and wonder:
Where do we go for sustenance?
Where do we go for compassion?
We go to our own hearts to lift joy, to lift light, to lift those
who struggle in this world. It is there within each of us—
this river of energy that flows through all beings.
It is ours to identify and bring forward: to expand,
to listen, to be, to not hide in fear, but to stand in our truth
and all that is being formed and informed in our evolution.
To this we open, clear the channels and debris, and allow ripples
in the many and varied ways that we as humans are capable of:
in art, writing, building and feeding, and all our generous gifts.
We open our hearts to give to both other and to self:
to lift up and honor all humans, all animals, all birds of the air,
waters in the seas, the flowers of the Earth, the soil to grow food.
We join with all creation, in this the song of life, in this
the flow of creation, for all to resist with love,
for all to persist in harmony, for all to abide in peace.
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“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson