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WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER, thankfully.
“Hope is often thought of as a feeling that things are going to get better. When facing the mess we’re in, it is difficult for most of us to have that. Looking into the future, we can no longer take it for granted that the resources we depend on – food, fuel, and drinking water – will be available.
We can no longer even be certain that our civilization can survive or that conditions on our planet will remain hospitable for complex forms of life…Yet because fears for our collective future are usually considered too uncomfortable to talk about, they tend to remain an unspoken presence at the back of our minds. We often hear comments such as, “Don’t go there, it is too depressing” and “Don’t dwell on the negative.”
The problem with this approach is that it closes down our conversations and our thinking. How can we even begin to tackle the mess we’re in if we consider it too depressing to think about or discuss? This blocked communication generates peril even more deadly, for the greatest danger of our times is the deadening of our response.” (1)
I offer the following from today’s Unfolding Light, lines 18-24. It offers one pastor’s thoughts on the ‘how.’ The entire piece by Steve Garnaas-Holmes may be worth reading. (August 11 reflection in Unfolding Light)
“…I will not consume this world nor quit it nor save it,
but join it: all of us in this together,
bound up in the giving-and-receiving of life:
wounding as little as I can,
humbled by what others sacrifice for me,
and grateful, to commit to this: to contribute
as least as much as I cost.”
I’m still asking myself and hear others ask, ‘How do we help?’
Thank you for everything you do in helping the flourishing of life.
1. Active Hope. 2022 Revised Edition. Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
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