Here is what my heart knows and wants for us all on this beautiful morning:
We are one human family and all neighbors on this planet. Therefore, we naturally consider each other in all decisions.
Everyone deserves justice, equity, freedom and liberty.
Diversity serves all of life. It supports plants, animals, land, as well as humans. It is our strength, our agility, our protection. Diversity is to be celebrated and honored.
Life is served when we treat and honor others, and the world around us, as we want to be treated and honored.
This beautiful planet is our communal home—for generations past, present and future. All decisions, therefore, consider the health and sustainability of our home so Life can thrive.
We are fully embodied human beings with wisdom coming from spirit, intuition, our bodies, our feelings, our intellect, our experience and more. It is time to value all our wisdom, and to be open to the mystery of what we don’t know.
Alignment of values and actions is critical to our personal and communal thriving. That process of alignment is needed for our individual ease, health and wellbeing as well as for the communal ease, health and wellbeing.
Since we are all part of one family, we walk alongside each other, supporting the steps toward alignment and wholeness. We no longer remain silent when injustice happens in word or deed—responding with support for each other in the opening for shift.
We have the capacity to grow and change. This transformation from constricted points of view to an open-hearted experience of justice and fairness is achievable … and glorious … and is already happening.
We are a country founded on openness to immigrants “yearning to breathe free.” When we need to limit immigration, it is done without limiting specific nationalities, races, or religious traditions.
We all thrive when there is a limit to the size of the income and financial wealth gap between people. Too much disparity hurts everyone.
Health care is available to everyone.
True health care encompasses a wide variety of modalities, far reaching beyond the powerful but limited Western medical system. Each individual has the ability to know her/his own body and is a important part of the health care team.
Understanding the full truth of our history is critical to how we live and structure our lives today. Knowing that fuller truth requires learning far beyond the school-taught version of history.
Protests are a critical part of democracy. Truthful reporting of those protests, and the state’s response, is also a critical part of democracy.
Children at the border belong with their parents.
All children should be ensured opportunities to thrive: education; healthcare; nourishment; supportive, safe surroundings.
Torture is wrong, even for someone designated as a terrorist or a war captive.
Excessive and/or violent force should not be used by those who are charged to protect us all.
Support and guidance are available to all from both the tangible sources (books, other people, etc.) and from invisible sources (called by many names: Spirit, God, Intuition, life, the universe, synchronicity).
We need everyone’s voice. Everyone’s sight. Our diversity in sight and voice and body is a gift to the whole.
Every moment is a new moment. And the present moment is the best opportunity for change to happen.
The person in front of you is a unique person (not just another___ like all other ___s) and deserves to be heard and seen for themselves.
That’s the beginning of my list. What does your heart know about thriving together?
In many ways, I am living in the world I want to live in. I know that transformation, beginning with myself and flowing out into community and our nation, is possible. I know first-hand what it takes to step outside the oppression inherent in so many of the values and habits of our dominant system and to step inside the fullness of my spirit and sight in partnership with others. I am in relationship with others who are walking, and have walked, that journey of honoring ourselves and each other enough to mutually support each other in our movement. All of this, right in the midst of 2020.
This transformative walk is the key to joy and freedom in our hearts and in our community. The moment is right now. Focusing on the beauty of stepping into justice, love and fairness can make all the difference.