I have to believe, Marisa, that most of the brutality is empty bluster, but the problem is, even the tiny fragment that isn't, is still too much. So how do we stay tender, when hardening our hearts can seem like the only way to survive? I think this is a really important question, because without that tenderness, we cannot emerge into a better world.
As the news comes in this morning about how many people around the world will suffer and starve with the defunding of USAID, we feel the bluster become all too real. But the hope is that we create new pathways to support the vulnerable, right?
And yes, this is surely just the beginning of a beginning of a thought as we ask tenderness to exist beside the brutality.
I have to believe, Marisa, that most of the brutality is empty bluster, but the problem is, even the tiny fragment that isn't, is still too much. So how do we stay tender, when hardening our hearts can seem like the only way to survive? I think this is a really important question, because without that tenderness, we cannot emerge into a better world.
As the news comes in this morning about how many people around the world will suffer and starve with the defunding of USAID, we feel the bluster become all too real. But the hope is that we create new pathways to support the vulnerable, right?
And yes, this is surely just the beginning of a beginning of a thought as we ask tenderness to exist beside the brutality.