When tragedy strikes
the heart constricts sheltering itself from the blows of the world We can turn on our minds and turn on our mouths raising fists raising ideas or clucking our dismay Popular culture loves and supports this 24 hour news propagates it our neighbors, loved ones and co-workers regurgitate it so it is understandably hard to not listen But there is an invitation by the little heart that closed to go inside to meet it to listen to its small and frightened voice All it takes is stillness all it takes is a willingness to shed tears for not just this tragedy but for all the tragedies ever that's all It is worth it for what also lives here is an authentic hope that so simply knows the way forward the mind searches so frantically for It is a place of compassion so deep, no bomb could touch it, it has already been bombed no genocide can mar it, it has already been marred It is the part of you who knows all of human history the horror and the sweetness of who we really are And it believe in the sweetness it is prepared to go to the heights and the depths for that sweetness Inexplicably in love with love There is a caveat one should know: This isn't for the feint of heart for it encourages a kind of rawness. You will feel all there is to feel and it will rub But if you consider these growing pains if you dedicate yourself to listening to and loving that little heart of yours, its resilience will grow and grow Until it is so much heart that it no longer needs to close in the face of so much pain, it can stand and weep offering an authentic hand of kindness to the world By Summer Starr November 19, 2015 - Dedicated to the deaths in Paris, both the victims and the perpetrators. May all rest in peace...including the survivors near and far.
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