Twelve long weeks ago, I was made keenly aware of how the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent quarantine was a wake-up call. Despite the challenges, I witnessed people becoming keenly aware of their priorities, asking those important questions… what really matters?
Family. How do we Protect.? What is REALLY Essential? How can I best Connect? How do we Care? How do we do our part…?
This forced retreat, offered all of humanity the invitation to look inward. Our hearts were being gifted with a chance to get re-ignited; to move from a stagnant familiarity with daily ‘chaos’ and normal ‘darkness,’ to something which all of life could live with.
It brought me to realize that in a very real way, that we CAN turn around the less-than-ideal solutions that have been interfering for too long, with the pureness of life that we were given long ago…
Whether it is our nuclear family, the human race family, or the inhabitants of this earth family, ALL of US have been invited to connect at a heart level.
It is important to acknowledge that loving, at that level, does not come without ache. LOVING at that level calls each of us to go back to our own inner corners and examine our values, our actions, and our reactions.
It’s easy, when we are fresh and motivated by the opportunities… It gets a LOT harder, when the ‘normal chaos and darkness’ we are all too familiar with comes creeping back in to tell us “it’s too hard; we might as well give up…”
Yet, that is exactly when we must really help each other navigate through… the darkness & chaos.
None of us has all the answers… but ALL of us have something to offer…
We really CANNOT be complete unless we are all in the mosaic.
I believe that we are in the chrysalis stage… something new and beautiful is emerging out of this world crisis…
Rushing a caterpillar through its life stages is fruitless.
Helping a pupa out of its cocoon, kills the pupa.
However, providing protection for that same pupa, allows the natural order of things to evolve into a beautiful new life.
It is time to ask ourselves, again and again, how can I provide that protection? Where can I be a support? How can I transform my inner examinations into outer acts of agency? Where can I be a foundation for another? Where might my being another’s fulcrum be instrumental in a change we are looking for? Where am I called to be a pillar? Where a voice of justice? And where a listening ear?
May our hearts guide us, our minds enlighten us and our souls sustain us…