It is now a week since the assault on the Capitol and we have been inundated with further disturbing news. Tension in Washington D.C. grows as arrests are made , new information is revealed and time moves toward the inauguration. The violence and threats of more continue, as does the surging Pandemic and the death toll. Distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine has begun and with it both a promise and a warning; things will eventually improve, but it will take time. We can expect the vaccination process to shift, the way most collective messages have shifted, as our experience and understanding continues to expand.
If you have not already returned to regular spiritual practice, now is the time to begin again. It is the time to recommit to your Way. Don't let the fatigue of the accumulated stressors undermine your spiritual faith and values and your faith in your own capacity for resilience and healing. I can only repeat the significance of maintaining your inner life and light. When it seems too much, pull back, disengage from the news, take care of yourself. Nurture yourself on more than one level. Then begin again. This is the time to draw on the inner strength that we have been building over all these months, despite our resistance and resentments, despite our frustration and anger, despite our anxiety--even times of panic, we have come this far and in all likelihood, this winter marks the turning point. You are stronger in ways you could not have imagined a year ago. Surprisingly, so are most of the people you know. When we relate from the strength of faith and experience, together, we are even stronger. (Susan Nettleton)
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.” Dalai Lama