The Way Forward is Always Love.

The past few months I have been obsessively focused on the US election. I couldn’t seem to stop reading about it. Now that it is over, what’s next?

Somehow, I had gotten off the mailing list for Richard Rohr’s daily meditations. A friend commented recently that he had been finding them really helpful, so I re-subscribed. Wow! I have been finding them to be really comforting, grounding, useful, and practical. This morning’s meditation was written by Rev. Michael Curry. He points to a truth which we all know, but which bears repeating, because it orients us in the direction we want to go- a direction which we know from our personal experience does work to both satisfy our soul and help our world around us. Rev Curry says:

“Love is a firm commitment to act for the well-being of someone other than yourself. It can be personal or political, individual or communal, intimate or public….. Love as an action is the only thing that has ever changed the world for the better... Where selfishness excludes, love makes room and includes. Where selfishness puts down, love lifts up. Where selfishness hurts and harms, love helps and heals. Where selfishness enslaves, love sets free and liberates. The way of love will show us the right thing to do every single time. It is moral and spiritual grounding— a place of rest— amid the chaos that is often part of life. It’s how we stay decent in indecent times. Loving is not always easy, but like with muscles, we get stronger both with repetition and as the burden gets heavier. And it works.”

Thank you, Rev. Curry for reminding us of this beautiful truth. We can decide to follow the way of love, and we can know that when we do, we will feel grounded, and satisfied deep within our souls, no matter what’s going on around us, no matter how wild the storm.

Hallelujah!