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love knows no bounds.compassion is one piece. it seeks out & goes to any place where there is suffering & to anyone who is suffering. authentic, complete compassion has no bias, shows no favor. it simply, directly, & profoundly goes to where the suffering is. this is what we are called to embody.

so when we notice we are leaving someone or some group out, we know that we have fallen off the path, we have missed the mark, that our heart has remained closed to that person or group. if our heart has not fully opened, our expressed love is incomplete, & we have work to do on ourselves.

we cannot say we are fully loving or that our heart is fully opened in this country, if we support or are indifferent to the suffering of the immigrant, the suffering of the trans person, or the erasure of the history of Black, or Indigenous, or LGBTQ+ people, or the withholding of food & medicines from the sick, the elderly, the disabled, & children. to do so, is to not be on the side of love.

likewise, love is not limited by borders either whether physical or psychological, so may our hearts open to the cries of suffering from Texas, from Gaza, from Ukraine, from the Congo, from wherever & whomever they come. when they are silent may we be their voice. when they fall, may we lift them up & stand beside them, walking hand in hand in however that is possible.

~j

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