Some
indigenous cultures have a tradition of embracing and loving the member
of the tribe who causes harm, pain or suffering to others. This is an
act of treating pain (the wrong doer acted from his own pain) with love.
They tell him he is loved. That he is made of divine love and he
belongs. He may fight back but eventually the love (which never tires)
wins. The community does not give up the battle to reclaim his goodness,
no matter how long it may take. To give up on that member of the tribe
is to permit darkness to infect the tribe.
We are facing the
same battle today in many corners of our lives. It may seem that there
is more darkness now than ever but that is not true. There is more love
and light now than ever before because of all the hard work done by the
generations that have gone before us and the work we are doing today.
We, the light bearers, have brought so much love to the world that our
planet has shifted and darkness can no longer hide. What seems like an
endless series of scandals and injustice and war is the darkness
bubbling up to the surface and into the light so it can be healed. It's
overwhelming at times but we can bring love to all of this darkness. We
are having the conversations, making stands for peace and learning how
to have compassion in new and powerful ways. We must not give up, even
if it takes generations.
We heal this world every day with our acts of
compassion and as we do, that energy ripples through the world and heals
people we will never know. We are the wings of the butterfly and the
hurricane is love.
Just as the tribe does not give up on the evil doing
tribe member, we cannot give up on humanity. Keep up the good fight. We
are winning. And we are healing the generations before and after us by
changing the story of our ancestor's children and our children's
ancestors.
Namaste.
