Love is bigger

“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”

                                            Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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Many of us believe some simple truths ( at least we see them as truths)

That there is something bigger than us

From whom we all come

And that something is love

Unconditional, unending, unreserved love

And that as Sacred Children

Who carry a part of this powerful reality,

Whom some call God

Within us

We all have a piece of the Sacred

A sacred seed

That from within that deepest part of ourselves

Moves, breathes, shapes, empowers

And shapes who we are

We can deny this presence

We can shut it down, silence it, entrap it

But it is there

And when we give it room to move

It wins

It is bigger and strong than anything the world can throw at us

Bigger than hate, greed, a lust for power, racism,

Even bigger than Donald Trump’s ego

I believe that as we seriously try to live out this love

This unconditional, unending, unreserved love

We change the space around us

We make it softer

More forgiving

We move from greed to generosity

From exclusion to acceptance

From cursing to blessing

Of course this is not an easy way

A few people have managed it

A few

People

Ghanhi perhaps

Nelson Mandela

Martin Luther King Jr

Dag Hammarskjold

Frankly we find this life of love puzzling

We deem it foolish and weak

But we know its power

Which is why we so often seek to silence and destroy those lives that live

For this imperative to love calls everything we prize in our competitive

Winner take all world

Into question.

And sometimes as we face the lies of Trump

And the ugly theocracy of Moore

And the judgmental shaming mentality of the rich

We question our sanity

This belief that love is indeed

Stronger than all else

And it is usually more hope

Than certainty

That moves us forward

Uncertainly

Down that path trod by

Martin, and Dag, and Mahatma

And yes

Some guy named Jesus

But if we lose this hope

We lose everything

And

All those forces and values that are not love

Win

Love wins, only if we accept it

Grab it

And most of all live it

In spite of

everything