On the Burning Love and Hope You Have for This World

Take it all in.

Hello Beautifuls,

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Me, Santa Cruz, last week.

My Loves,

I am in California again and have been non-stop seeing friends and family, attending a conference that was both uplifting and disappointing (more on that later), working and spending not enough time at the ocean. Though I did jump into the water last week and it was divine.

I saw

Elizabeth Gilbert

’s question for love this Sunday and it gave me great pause. The state of the world is always prevalent in my being and I was very curious to see what Love might have to tell me on this subject. Here is my letter.

Dear Love, what would you have me know about this moment in history?

This moment in history is the same as others and different than others. Your systems are at a breaking point, and they need to be broken. The damage will be great, but the rebuilding this devastation will render will be greater. We know it does not seem like it, but you are lucky to be alive at this moment in history. Deep ways of being human are changing, forced upon you by the collective human actions of the past.

We would have you know that it is okay to be afraid, okay to be worried, okay to be angry. It is also okay to trust that somehow, everything is also okay, that you are okay, that while the world as you know it may not continue to exist for much longer, there is more to you than just being human.

We ask that you surrender to beauty, to love, to the pain of watching life extinguished. We ask that you allow yourself to take it all in, all of the aching sorrow and fear, all of the burning love and hope you have for this world. Take it in, my love, and breathe it back out.

Because this is the only thing you are truly here to do. To witness, to experience, to love and hurt and fuck and revel and collapse and breathe into another day.

What we would have you know about the state of the world is that you are lucky to be here, now. You are powerful, regardless of who is in charge of the power systems. Your heart has power. Your voice has power. Your words have power.

Your love is power.

Use it, swim in it, release yourself into it, over and over again.

And know that this moment in history is just one more of a million moments that are all the end, all the beginning.

It’s hard to explain what a huge gift your comments are. They help me feel not so alone. So if you feel moved to say anything, please do. I will always respond.

With so much love,

xo

j

And because we call can use a little something to lift us up these days, Chris Botti’s “Indian Summer” is one of my desert-island songs and it always but always makes me feel a little bit lighter. I often listen to it while flying, and maybe because of that it reminds me of soaring above the earth, hovering in the clouds, full of wonder and awe.

This one too, “Bring it On,” by Seal. “Don't wait until tomorrow. Bring it on.
Unconditioned love will bring it on.”

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