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“My work is loving the world.”

~Mary Oliver 

my guess is that a lot of people will agree with this, but will do so without thinking about what it really means. 

what does it mean to love this world, to be love in this world?

at 50 years old, it looks different to me than it did at 20. when i look to those who have embodied it in a sacred way, it looks like sacrifice & service, like a tendering holding & tender offering & emptying, like a fierce standing up & speaking out when needed, like radical inclusivity with no one & no thing excluded.

it looks like work.

but it also looks like deep joy, deep connection & union. it looks like peace & it looks like healing, like a vast blue sky able to receive everything.

it looks like the opposite of a lot of what we are seeing with current people in power & power structures. how does love speak & show up in such times as these, where those in power & their sycophants delight in cruelty, greed, & destruction?

may our love, in its myriad diverse manifestations be a benefit & a blessing to the deepest depth & highest height, for each other & this world.

~j

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