Hi, ,

I am so enjoying our new in person Wednesday 6 pm Meditation Group. Each week we get this diverse and fabulous group of people who come together to support each other. Thank you to each and every one of you. We are helping to make a change in our own lives and in the world.

If you haven't yet had the courage or time to join us, please consider it for next Wednesday at 6 pm. Enclosed please find one of the readings from last night - these words are very helpful for me right now.

"Something is trying to be born. And something is dying. Here’s what’s dying. A world of white supremacy is dying. A world of dominating, angry, greedy men without empathy is dying. A world without concern for planet Earth itself – that world is dying. A world of violence and power, of religious supremacy that measures value by wealth, not health, that world is dying. A world that works by domination and exclusion, not by collaboration and connection, that kind of world is dying. A world of me first, not we first, that world is dying.

And like a dying cornered animal, that dying world bares its teeth and its claws and it will destroy as much as it can before it’s done.

If you only look at what is dying, you’ll feel despair.

But something else is trying to be born. Don’t forget about it.

It’s not as loud and angry as what is dying. But it’s far more important. What is being born is beautiful and you know, because you feel it. It’s being born in you. The pain of these moments, they might feel like death pains, but they’re really labor pains. The darkness, as my friend Valerie Kaur says is simultaneously the darkness of the tomb for what is dying and it’s the darkness of the womb for what is trying to be born. Be strong and have good courage, my friends. We are in this together. Something is dying. But something is trying to be born."

~ Brian McLaren, author, speaker and activist