What if every snowflake was a message from heaven, or an angel, or a loving guide, or whatever heavenly thing it is you believe in? Maybe these beings gathered in an emergency meeting and said, “Let’s send our love and hope and grace to these beautiful suffering people and animals; let’s send billions of these exquisite creations, as unique as the souls living there; let’s send them to drop on their heads, to dance on their tongues, to fly on a wisp of wind, to heal illness, to soothe hearts from tragedy, from injustice, from material loss; to douse destructive flames, to acknowledge, accept and then extinguish the fires of fear and hate, to transform the anger they feel for those that disagree with them or wish them harm.”
More than ever, I believe in the existence of dark forces, or at least the anarchy that occurs when light is absent. And more than ever, I believe in the power of light, that there is far more light than dark, that darkness and light cannot co-exist, and that each of us is an enormously powerful beacon of this light.
More than ever, I pray to heal the hate that stirs in my mind when faced with something I don’t like. More than ever, I acknowledge and invite the healing light that lives in all of our hearts, to respond to the miracle of a snowflake, or a fern popping out of a burned forest, or the awe-inspiring charity that lives in all of us, and our ability to cherish what we have in common with the open-hearted wisdom with which we entered this world.
Everyone bleeds the same way. Injured arteries spurt and injured veins leak. Everyone has the same five strata of skin, every brain has the same configuration of protective layers, every spine goes to extraordinary lengths to surround and shield the wondrous cord that supports our life.
We wake to a miracle each day, and that is the fact that, in this vacuum of endless space, we have come to be on this planet, situated just the perfect distance away from the life-sustaining sun, from the tide-ruling moon, and surely we must be surrounded by the most beneficent beings imaginable, to create air and food and water on this living rock that is suspended in the most hostile of environments. And that, among the billons of souls that have lived here and the billions to come, we are here together now which, in itself, should give us cause to leap with joy each time we face another person or creature on this planet.
I have strong opinions about who I want in the White House, but I also know that no matter who is in charge politically, it is the power of the love in our hearts that truly governs us, that makes miracles, that brings peace.
