Today is a creative day! I have spent the morning writing blogs. It is such a great time when I just go with the stream of consciousness and write and write. I really go into a kind of zone and when I come back I can't believe some of the things that have been written.
This morning I was also thinking about the Ukraine. The country has been at war for ten years with full invasion occurring in 2022. I don't know enough to speak with intelligence about it. I know it is amazing that President Zelenskyy has lead the country for five years and still appears to be well-liked.
You've read often how I feel about violence. So we hear about the fallout when we hear about athletes trying to compete for the Ukraine. I still can't imagine what it would be like to live in Carmichael and worry about bombs tonight!
We have a weekly family Zoom meeting which has been going on for almost five years. We talk about births, deaths, graduations, and all sorts of family news. We don't talk weekly about what violence took the lives of what family members. We don't talk about not having enough food or shelter. We live in a bubble.
So our daily prayer list carries space for those who wake up each day and have a goal of surviving the day. Just to survuve the day! I mentioned earlier that we live in a bubble but that's not exactly true.
I've talked in other blogs about the six degrees of separation. It is a theory that all of us are connected within six degrees with others in the world. So here is what I think is probably a truth. Each of us have in our circle of connection someone in the six degrees of separation that is part of survuval. Someone whose only goal is to survive the day - just to live through it! We are connected in some way to someone going through this.
It is critical that we give thanks for being safe and strive in prayer to hold others in the same place. Because no matter how aloof, how separate we think we are - we're not! We're connected in the giant weaving of life across time and location and everything else.
Something you do today will make a huge difference in another's life and you will never know it. Your job is to be fully present and authentic. We often find the present moment too big for our human side and so part of us moves outside the body. Get back consciously into your body. Be who you are in full spirit and it becomes a humanistic movement.
When one of us holds sacred space we do it for all. So I thank you for the part you play. Never never minimize it - it is huge and magnificent! But don't ask for details because it is not something we can figure out or understand. Just do it! Hey, that sounds like a good motto...........
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