This Weekend Celebrate

#BlackWomenAre Divine

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.