Radiant Love During A Shit Time
We will rise up.
Hello My Loves,
I keep thinking about this line in Love Actually where Emma Thompson’s character says, “This was always going to be a shit time.” And that’s exactly how I feel about today and the phase we’re about to enter. Chaos. Madness. Who knows what all will be broken. But surprisingly, despite the sorrow of this loss, I feel a quite a bit of radiant love in my heart today, and I wonder if this election may be the final thing that brings our broken system, our broken hearts, to rock bottom, so that we can build something better from the destruction.
I don’t know, maybe that’s just trying to silver line this shit cloud, but I think not. I think there is something happening here that will surprise us all with it’s beauty and brilliance.
I was going to stay quiet and try to keep an even keel over here on my own today, getting work done, buying plane tickets to see my mom, meditating like my life depends on it.
And even though I thought I wanted to just ignore the world, I kept getting messages from friends, reaching out to send me some love, asking how I am doing. And it’s making me smile, and it’s making me feel loved, and it’s making me feel connected.
And I know that feeling connected, being connected and belonging, are the things we humans crave most.
So. My message today, for myself as much as anyone else, is we all belong here. We are all here together. We are not alone and we will rise up. My friend and fellow Substacker
shared that song, “Rise Up,” with me today and it made me feel determined and powerful.So here I am, sending out some love and resilience and power to you all today. We are not alone. We belong to each other. We will rise up.
With so much love,
Jocelyn
Thank you for this today, friend. I'm still processing everything and I'm sure the shock and awe of it all will be in my system for a while. I'm leaning into gratitude today: friends, family, loved ones who share my distaste for hatred and exclusivity. We're all leaning into each other, supporting each other, loving each other which is the only thing we can do right now.
Thank you Jocelyn for this love letter today, so glad "Rise Up" struck a chord for you today. I also believe that sometimes we need to be at the edge of the abyss to rise up and fight for what we truly value, that this world, this life, is cyclical, that humanity needs to go very, very low in order to go high, and that just maybe something in our foundation needed to be shaken up to recognize what truly grounds us--and that in spite of it all, we can remain firm in our "unshakeable goodness." I don't know, this is where my mind is going right now. I thought many, many people had recognized we were at the edge of the abyss but clearly that wasn't the case, there were not enough of us. So here we are, we rise or we keep falling.