Breaking Open
#SongsOfComfort Breaking Open
"We are not broken, we are just unfinished" Amanda Gordon
Last Tuesday Andy and I watched the Inauguration, warm tears rolling down our cheeks into our Kona coffee. And the next day, it began: phone calls, emails, texts from people we haven't heard from for months or years wanting to risk, to reach, to begin something that had been on hold. During the past four years, many of us learned what we are moving away from, but what is it exactly that we want to move towards? We've been hunkered down, now how do we lift each other up? We know what we've been fighting against but what is it we are fighting for?
We've been dominated into thinking all choices are divided into "either" and "or". But healing of any kind requires connection. Imagine holding a rope, one end in each hand and pulling it taut in opposite directions. Last week, many of us chose to release that tension and now wonder how to bring those two ends around so they can form a circle. These days the two of us begin each day by sitting quietly on the lanai as the sun breaks us open or dancing wildly to one song that inspires us awake. We invite you to join us in some way as you check in with how things are for you in this moment, and how you would like them to be. Forward movement begins with the question, "What's one thing you can do to bring those rope ends a little closer?"