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Recently at the Unity Church in Boulder we talked about what a difficult moment this is in American history. But there have been other difficult times, to be sure. The question is not just what’s happening, but who we’re choosing to be in the space of what’s happening.

We are called upon to navigate extremely turbulent historical waters, and our politics isn’t an adequate container for the thinking or the conversation needed to do that.

Our politics is like allopathic medicine, focused only on external remedies and not taking into account the psychological and emotional and spiritual dynamics involved in either causing our societal disease or that are necessary to heal it. We will get to the remedy; I saw in my campaign that the people are ready to create it. It’s the political/media/campaign establishment that’s not.

It’s sad for all of us to see the terrible state we’re in as a country now, but I think what we need to do is to feel that sadness. Recognizing the depth of the problem will counterintuitively guide us to the place within ourselves from which will come the answers and solutions we need now.

This quote from Aeschylus is one of my favorites; I’ve always thought of it in personal terms, but it’s true collectively as well: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

Dear God, please give us wisdom now.

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