SWIRLING EVIL AND DEEPER TRUTHS
“The surface swirls with events, circumstances, problems, worries. Its tasks seem impossible and overwhelming. In the deeps, something else is taking place.”
This quote from N. Gordon Crosby came across my email this morning, one of three inspirational messages I receive each day and usually don’t get around to reading because when I turn on my computer, I’m assaulted by “events, circumstances, problems, and worries” and rarely take the time for “the deeps.”
This week I’m overwhelmed, trying to prepare a sermon for Sunday, get ready to hit the road for seven weeks, and deal with doctor’s appointments for my bad hip and my two elderly cats with cancer.
Also, my country is stealing thousands of children from their parents, slapping numbers on them, and locking them in cages where nobody is allowed to hold them or comfort them.
I just read several new polls saying that most Americans don’t care for this. Well, bully for them. The same polls show that 55% of self-identified Republicans and 40% of white people think this is just fine.
It is hard to remember the deeper truths when our nation is being overwhelmed with evil.
It is hard to remember that God works all things for good. That the moral arc of the universe eventually bends towards justice, as Dr. King said. That “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well,” as the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich said.
God is not working fast enough for my tastes. Neither is Robert Mueller.
Photo credit: John Moore
Writing with Spirit 
Jun 19, 2018 @ 11:24:23
Melanie…
i saw HIP in your post and wanted to tell you immediately what happened to me and my hip. went through lots of doc visits, had helpful physical therapy and THEN…. my primary said, well, we’ve got this acupuncture clinic you can try…
my hip pain has turned into a feeling of stiffness. i’ve been to clinic maybe 7 times… the pain stopped after the first visit.
i’m taking Meloxicam for the inflammation, and the hip’s certainly not good as new, but it does not hurt like it did before acupuncture. and this is only a general treatment designed to tell my body it can relax now, no tigers are coming to eat me. the message is: you can heal yourself now, you have time and energy to do that.
your plate is so full. seven weeks away? where will your cats be?
i like your footloose life style. i feel so tethered.
please put this new email address into your contacts…. jane.perkins4@me.com.
have fun on your trip!
jane 202 236 8282
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Jun 19, 2018 @ 11:30:03
Wow! Thank you! I’m glad you are improving. I have resisted acupuncture for other things, but this is serious and there’s no way I’m “old enough” for surgery! Will be in touch. My kitties are coming with me, except for 5 days.