Yearning for Hope in Turbulent Times & Finding God Everywhere.
January 2025.
Deep Freeze. Endless Snow. Loss, deep and profound loss of a most Beloved Friend. New Administration. Executive Orders. More Grief. Lots of Anger. Grief. Grief. Loss. Weary.
ALSO: Singing. Grief Rituals. Death Vigil for Beloved Friend surrounding and cocooning her with love as she surrenders into God. God everywhere-in the antics of my little dog, in the neighbors looking for our little dog in the frozen tundra of our neighborhood the day he was lost (then found), in the resilience of all of the ancestors/resistors/who refused to be diminished/belittled/silent in the face of oppression and in the life affirming, creative ways they claimed/accessed/shared power.
God everywhere. In pleas for mercy. God in the courageous hearts of protectors and promoters of peace and goodness everywhere.
God in those who cast off smugness and self righteousness for the expansive grace in curiosity.
God in those who move beyond the need to be right/smart/first/loudest but choose instead to love-no matter what (with some strong self honoring boundaries)!
God=Love=primary force of binding that drives the ongoing creation of the Universe.
God in the current of life, moving underneath the noise and in and through all things.
Breathing God in on the in breath, and transformed, exhaling God on the out breath, out into this terrible, beautiful, cruel, loving world.
