There’s beauty as the Sun sets in the valley and valleys of lfie ….
Be midwives to the possibility of change. Reach into the darkness of the unknown and grasp the world that is coming. Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. Rumi
The words of this clarion call from my friend, activist and novelist Rivera Sun, were the last thing that met my eyes last evening before heading into dreamland. They were with me this morning as I gazed upon the mountain and opened into exploring where The Pivot stream would flow this blog day. As the ink began to flow, Rumi joined in.
I’ve experienced a week of grief and deep reflection about this time we are living in. Questions rising from deep within at the horrors perpetrated against the most vulnerable human beings and against Life itself lead me to explore my own vulnerability and the nature of vulnerability itself. Questions rising about carrying on with and participating in daily life in a time of violent conflict (I’d call it ‘civil war’ but there is nothing civil about war!), about building and strengthening community far and wide, and about sharing authentically with others, acknowledging disagreement without being disagreeable.
To share authentically and be loving and accepting in the process. Or as Rivera would say, Be kind. Be connected. Be unafraid. (The Dandelion Insurrection). To listen deeply to one another and to our inner knowing as we attempt to grok the shock of events, and more importantly, to move beyond the awful into awe of what is possible. For to be stuck in the muck of awfulness is to dwell in the dark of hopelessness, fueling the very flames that dwelling in the spirit of awe and wonder have the power extinguish. That’s the military strategy of ‘shock and awe’ that a former U.S. President puffed up his chest and bragged about when the United States invaded Iraq, attempting to entrap people in fear and awfulness. But wisdom knows that this game of braggadocios domination is ending as we turn away from separation and fear and turn toward interconnectedness and love.
Turning toward awe is not turning away from the awfulness of violence and the fear it instills. Rather awe is an antidote to that very fear and leaning with love fully into resisting those who use the shock of domination to control.
Resistance is calling for the sun to set on the systems of dominance which do not serve Life in order to open the way for a new day and new ways to rise. Being midwives to the possibility of change, we grasp the new world that is coming by stepping into co-creative partnerships with one another and with Source, creating for ourselves and one another what Charles Eisenstein called the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Let’s meet in the field of Rumi’s vision, the field of awe beyond wrong and right, the field of creating a new world together. YES! We can. We are. We will!
With gratitude to the community of light-infused explorers for the genesis of this week’s Pivot. You know who you BE!
… And beauty and the promise of new as the Sun rises in the mountains.