This Weekend Celebrate
#BlackWomenAre Divine
A chance for all of us to recognize the courage it takes to simply live a life of dignity as a Black Woman in this country. Click here for more information about how to participate.
An excerpt from the poem by Clarrisa Pinkola Estes:
Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.
I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and
properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of
affairs in our world right now. It is true, one has to be
strong to withstand much of what passes for "good" in our
culture today. Abject disregard of what the soul finds most
precious and irreplaceable and the corruption of principled
ideals have become "the new normal".
Ours is a time of almost daily jaw-dropping astonishment
and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what
matters most to civilized, visionary people. The lustre and
hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous
against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the
unguarded, the helpless...is breathtaking.
Yet, I urge you, ask you, to please not spend your spirit dry
by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose
hope. The fact is--we were made for these times.
Yes for years we have learning, practicing, been in
training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain
of engagement. I cannot tell you often enough that we
are definitely the leaders we have been waiting for and that we
have been raised, since childhood, for this time precisely.
One of the most important steps you can take to help calm
the storm is to not allow yourself to be taken in a flurry of
overwrought emotion or despair - thereby accidentally contributing
to the swale and the swirl. Ours is not the task of fixing
the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to
mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
