Unwavering

At this hour, the full moon is still shining and the forest seems at peace.  Waking before the light comes up seems to be so satisfying.  The temperature sits at 53 degrees fahrenheit.  Today is Thursday.

The examples of a healthy way of being are few these days.  No wonder, given all that people have to work with just to live - attending to work, to family, to community and these days - the world.  It's how it is in this moment of our lives. We are literally in the experience of a shift that is affecting absolutely everything in our lives.  Today, in the news there is even a story that reports that our water source is growing scarce and in less than twenty years, people n California will be scrambling for potable drinking water.  What will be the collective response?  

There are people who remain unwavering in their commitment to the core of who we are, and how we can hold on to the ways that cannot be lost.  Like ancestors before us, we are tasked with finding answers to questions that go well beyond our generation.  And it is so good to actually know there are those who fully appreciate where things are headed, yet keep their focus on what is possible, not just probable.  The probable is global disintegration;  but the possible is that there are events and circumstances that will give rise to opportunities yet unknown and unseen as paths to affirming life.

The ways that need to be kept alive and remembered through all the stresses and strains of seeking survival - boil down to love.  One old teaching suggests that the basic and core energy of the universe is love.  There is no other way to explain the many ways in which life continues – yes there is technology, there are scientific and medical discoveries, and depth in considering the options before us.  And, in the end when we reach a point of not knowing - something keeps us going.  It is hope, it is an energy that is complex, and it is ultimately about loving oneself, and all of what sustains us.

How one manifests this might not look like the word suggests.  Sometimes that love is firm, directive, and tough.  It has to be because as human beings, we can be stubborn, confused, and oppositional.  This is how we are:  a mixed bag.  So the fact that there are those who understand and embrace this truth about who we are are, they are the ones whose unwavering commitment is invaluable.

The fact that we will never know the end of the story and how this "big" love will or will not keep restoring what is challenged in our world almost doesn't matter because what seems to be unknown is what is keeping some folks in the game of life - not just for themselves but for all that exists in our world.  Thankful that our paths have crossed.  Deeply grateful for the choice that has been made to be unwavering in their faith in possibilities.