the rise of the American spirit …

If you’re reading this - thank you.

Thank you for taking the time to settle into something positive and uplifting in the face of a national crisis of unheralded proportion.

Never in American history have we seen the confluence of three massive events: a pandemic, unprecedented unemployment and economic crisis, and one of the largest displays of civil unrest in our nation’s history. All in the same two weeks!

If you’re feeling on edge, having trouble sleeping, and/or kind of blue, it’s with good reason.

We don’t have a roadmap for these times.

But we do have resources and skills: wisdom, mindfulness, presence, love, and our ability to choose in each and every moment who and how we want to be.

Like you, I have watched with horror as the city streets in America have been filled with military presence, police using batons on our citizens, many of whom are peacefully protesting, tear gas and flash bombs erupting in our streets.

Like you, I grieve the loss of lives, the brutality, the division and separation that severs a deep divide across our nation.

Yet, I also see something else emerging. I see a nation rising in a unified voice calling for Oneness, Unity, Peace, Justice, and Equality.

We are no longer waiting for “the leadership” to provide the moral compass for our country.

We, the people, are rising up to stand for one another. 

I saw videos of people of all colors line dancing in the streets of Minneapolis.

I saw a man bring a piano into the streets so anyone could come forward to play music with hundreds of others gathered around in joy.

We are rising up.

We are taking a stand for the truth that we are all one.

 Not one nation - but one vibration, one energy, one heartbeat of humanity.

We are waking up to the truth that harm cannot fall to a segment without harming the whole.

The healing of our country, the healing of the hundreds of years of oppression and abuse heaped upon minority communities will end when we all rise up and stand for love.

Love is the only way.

Not the romantic notion from a Hallmark card on Valentines day, but love as a guiding principle and force. 

Love that says, “I and my sister are one. I and my brother share this planet, this life, this world together.”

Love breeds kindness, acceptance, connection, open-heartedness.

Love opens the door to what is possible for the betterment of our world.

Love is the only way through this historic time.

So yes, march, protest, raise your voice as loud and as often as you can.

But when you speak, speak only love.

When you march, march only for peace.

When you gather, gather only in unity.

Let’s affirm this is a time of awakening as a nation and as a human race.

Awakening means that we are willing to be fully responsible for how we see the world, and that we raise our vibe in every way - seeing love, speaking love, being love.

In awakening, we experience a new beginning, giving rise to a more healthy, sustainable, harmonious, and just civilization.

Focus there.

Create a new, higher order for all to live and prosper. 

This is what we were born to be.

 Let’s Rise to the Call.