The week has brought another wave of terror. Amplified by instantaneous images and incomplete story lines, the stark reality that millions of people live with daily penetrates the walls that distance and privilege have built for the perceived safety of others.
The root of all hate is fear, the weapon of choice that perpetrators of every ilk employ, be they sick individuals or religious and political extremists.
Love waits at the other end of the continuum, the wellspring of personal worth and our most intimate relationships. Love is the progenitor of compassion and the golden rule that summons the best in our connections among communities, cultures, nations and our planet home.
May each of us pause to revisit the core of our being that is nurtured by love and then in our own unique way raise our voice to speak our NO to fear and our YES to compassion.
Words by Daniel Martin from Life Prayers may help guide us to reclaim truths that we ignore at our peril.
We who have lost our sense and our senses – our touch, our smell, our vision of who we are; we who frantically force and press all things, without rest for body or spirit, hurting our Earth and injuring ourselves; we call a halt.
We want to rest. We need to rest and allow the Earth to rest. We need to reflect and to rediscover the mystery that lives in us, that is the ground of every unique expression of life, the source of the fascination that calls all things to communion.
We declare an Earth Holy Day, a space of quiet: for simple being and letting be; for recovering the great forgotten truths.
sacredlead 
This is beautifully written. Thank you for your insights at this difficult time…Kit
I am grateful for your comment, Kit. At times like these we need to tap the best within each of us to bring out the best in each other.