A pause for today
This is for everyone who isn’t okay today.
If your heart is broken,
if your body is heavy with grief
or fear
or rage
or everything at once.
If your body is telling you, you can’t possibly just move on — not again. This is for you.
Today, we honor this wisdom.
We sit with the tension we all feel to make space for ourselves — against the pull to get back to work and life. Our bodies know that moving on would mean letting go of the parts of us that care. Sacrificing our humanity for the sake of…next steps.
Today, we remember that our depth of feeling reflects our humanity.
And that matters in a world that feels so inhuman.
If you’re numb or struggling to feel, that is wisdom too. Our bodies understand the depth of emotion in this moment–the depth of grief, sadness, fear, loss, devastation. Depths that would bring us to our knees. It is protective to pull away.
We know that grief is meant to be held in community. And today, we make space to feel together —
those of us whose hearts are heavy
who believe in healing and transformation
who move through violence toward a world beyond it…
We make space for grief in a way that our ancestors couldn’t. We grieve for those whose lives were so consumed with survival and pain, their grief sank into their bones and into future generations.
We take a collective breath together.
And another.
We breathe to exhale our ancestors’ grief along with our own.
We breathe to connect to something stronger than our fear and despair.
We breathe to receive what we need to be here and live inside this world.
We breathe to honor the ancestors we will become.
In a world that wants us separate, we breathe together.
May those who are grieving loved ones, and those who are grieving strangers on this day, be held with the fierce love and care that is alive among us in this moment.
As we hold one another and allow ourselves to be held,
let us pray for what we need to face our feelings with the infinite, loving
support of Source.
