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Mar 13, 2020
"Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do." --Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Do Not Lose Heart -- We Were Made for These Times
Clarissa Pinkola Estes stirringly invites us to embrace the moment we are in with all of its fear, uncertainty, and turmoil. She says, "I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it...In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm." This passage calls us to constructive action -- and recalls us to our deepest purpose.
BE THE CHANGE
What is your response to times of great challenge? What would it look like in your life to be "fully lit and willing to show it"?
