Light

Somehow , in the face of poverty, lies, denial, overwhelming misinterpretation and endless suffering, we have persevered, not given up.

Perhaps the worse part of prolonged isolation is how you start to doubt yourself, to question your motives when you try to explain, to feel foolish when you take a stand or hesistent when you try to articulate your incomprehensible needs.

I have been thinking about these things, about how to deal with what lies ahead, this year, we have major challenges coming up; I wonder how we’ll possibly manage?

The miracle is we will.

Shortly before Linda and I got married, Leonard Cohen sang “There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in”. I have held onto those words and found them true.

No matter how grim or impossible the horrendous things we have had to face down the years, the light of love, of truth, compassion and spirit, inevitably, has always found a way to affirm, strengthen, inspire, guide and lift us up.

So we keep going.

Never losing hope, even when hope seems to have gone. It still manages to rise again, helping us move forward and face the unknown.