After the last few weeks contemplating “harmonizing competition”and how we personally and globally are being led back to activate “common rhythm” with each other beyond the competition and divisions that still reside in our forefathers wakes, this week we would like us to start contemplating “Radical Resilience.”
Radical Resilience
I resonate with these two words as I reflect on the many chapters of a life, past and present, and I project these two words into our futures as together we look to support resilience of ourselves, friends, communities, countries and humanity itself.
Radical Resilience
As Richard Rohr says “Contemplation helps us engage with a world on fire — without burning up or out.”
We live in a world on fire. As the flames of horrific wars, unjust societies, humanitarian disasters, and ecological crises flicker around us, it is easy to feel helpless and overwhelmed. How can we respond to this destructive era with wisdom, love, and peace?
The path ahead will be challenging, but we will walk it together. That is why we explore these contemplation messages as a way to build Radical Resilience — tending our inner flame so we can stand in solidarity with the world without burning up or out.
What is Radical Resilience.
Radical Resilience is the ability to face hardship with greater love and deeper awareness. We believe that contemplation, the practice of being fully present, is one way to grow more resilient — teaching us how to sustain inner strength, purpose, and connectedness.
Contemplation shapes Radical Resilience as a way to choose love and peace over anger, denial, and despair. Imagining a better future begins by finding it within ourselves—only then can we help others tend to their own inner flame. Together we can live that better future out into the world.
Could it be that All there is is Love?
Throughout my life I sense I have been learning what love is.
Forrest Gump gave us all a lesson “I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is. I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.”
For me I thought I knew what love was, as there were times in my early years when I convinced myself I was in Love. This often ended in being disappointing or being disappointed…. But I had received glimpses of the feeling of love from human angels in my life. I started to feel how to receive love through the caring outreach of others and this has led me on a path to both recognizing that the deeper my capacity to both give and importantly receive care, the greater my ability to allow God to let me glimpse what love is.
Our only holiness is by participation and surrender to the Body of Love, and not by any private performance. This is the joining of hands from generation to generation that still can—and will—change the world, because Love is One, and this Love is either shared and passed on or it is not the Great Love at all. The One Love is always eager, and, in fact, such eagerness is precisely the giveaway that we are dealing with something divine and eternal.
I find Love in the Trinity and today in the midst of all the chaos and sounds and flashing lights around our world, I sense we can seek the contemplation of the Mystery of Spirit revealing its universal truth. We see signs of this everywhere and this gives me hope, belief and trust in faith for faith itself.
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