Journal of Sacred Work

As we experience discomfort in this time, let’s begin to dream of a new normal, a new normal that addresses the weaknesses and problems that were going unaddressed in the old normal. If we’re wise, we won’t go back; we’ll go forward. —Brian McLaren

In this time of serious crisis, we face threats to our health and sadness for the family and friends we have lost. Economic disruption is posing a major challenge to governments and undermining the ability of so many people to make a living.

It is during times like this that we must focus on what unites us as members of one human family. Accordingly, we need to reach out to each other with compassion. As human beings, we are all the same. We experience the same fears, the same hopes, the same uncertainties, yet we are also united by a desire for happiness. Our human capacity to reason and to see things realistically gives us the ability to transform hardship into opportunity.

This crisis and its consequences serve as a warning that only by coming together in a coordinated, global response, will we meet the unprecedented magnitude of the challenges we face. I pray we all heed ‘The Call to Unite’.

Dalai Lama
May 1, 2020

As a global society we are at such a critical crossroad. I feel as though we are being cracked open and our underbellies are exposed and vulnerable to reveal the best and worst of humanity. As difficult as it may be, with eyes wide open we must self-examine, acknowledge and respond to this call to unite. All of life is interdependent and we can not make it alone. We are at a tipping point. We need each other. The human spirit is resilient and together we can overcome whatever challenges befall us, but only if we open our hearts to the truth of who we are as One people, One earth and One human family.

We’re here for one thing, ultimately: to learn how to love, because God is love. Love is our origin, love is our ground, and love is our destiny.  ~James Finley

Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel