keeping going

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

― Winston S. Churchill

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

― Confucius

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Why keep fighting?

Why keep spending so much time an energy

When the power of the Presidency,

The power of Congress,

The power of the very rich,

Mean that they can and will ignore what is right?

Why keep trying to change minds, and hearts

When no one is willing to listen

When everyone is entrench

When misinformation and propaganda

Have enslaved so many,

Causing them to support what is fundamentally, evil?

Why keep trying to lift souls up,

when they are so very busy wallowing in the swamp,

supporting the unsupportable?

Why keep going

when it is clear that greed and the lust for power

are more influential than generosity, compassion, and love?

When even the sacred fellowship the ekklasia, the Sacred gathering

Has now become a insider club marked by fear, exclusion, judgement and even hate

Why?

Because

Because God is love

Because if we are open to Sacred presence

We can be the light in the darkness

We can be the mustard seed

The pinch of yeast

If not us, who?

If not now, when?

The light appears to be flickering

in danger perhaps, of going out

the places from whence the light should shine

have become dark holes

sucking goodness out of the world

be we cannot give up

For “we know that for those who love God (the God who is love, not the faux God) all things work together for good

Not all is good

Not all will be good

But even out of the most horrendous times

Good can come

But it will only come

through those who are willing to stay connected to the Sacred

through those who remain open to Sacred Presence

it will only come

as the “God in us” oozes out through our words, our attitudes, out actions

we may be going through hell

keep going