Peacemaker Ponderings

Have you been reading about the Great Lakes’ reactions to the cold snap? Although, actually — can you call it a cold snap, when it goes on and on and on? Lake Superior is 51% frozen. Lake Michigan is 34%, Lake Huron is 67%, and Lake Ontario is 26%. Lake Erie? It’s at 95% and climbing. All of these lakes are reaching historical percentages of ice. We’ll see if our 34˚ days do anything to melt the ice. If in fact, the wind stops blowing.

Then on Monday, the 9^th, the ice on Lake Michigan cracked. One huge crack right across the middle. Yeah, stay off the ice! Somehow, this made me think about that old adage, “when Hell freezes over.”

I’m not talking about this gorgeous Lake as Hell… Instead, I’m feeling as if we have encountered a situation that is responsive to the claim, “America will no longer be a democracy, when hell freezes over.” Uh, huh. Well, here we are. Now we can no longer pretend that we are not experiencing authoritarianism. Let’s acknowledge that this presidency feels as if it can act with impunity in terms of finance, in rule of law, in treatment of citizens and those who have sought refuge in the Land of the Free.

But here we are, the Crack! That’s us. That’s Minnesotans singing “Somebody’s hurting my neighbors, and it’s gone on far too long, and we won’t be silent anymore:”* — as they stand in front of neighbor’s houses, outside schools, as they deliver hot meals to those for whom it is unsafe to leave their home. Crack! That’s people’s understanding how dangerous this administration is to the well-being of the American People and our Guests. Crack! That’s Survivors, Newscasters, public, and finally, perhaps, the House and the Senate saying the Epstein Conspiracy is too despicable not to be exposed. Crack! Suddenly many more of us are standing up together singing for all our lives.

To make a wild leap from song to song, what happens when the legislative bough breaks? Down will come Evil, plotting and all. I don’t believe in hell. I do believe in Restitution and Reparation. These are actions of Peacemaking. The people who have been pretending that all is ok, will have to face the Truth. How is this going to happen? Historical Groups, such as the Sons of Liberty are rising up. Martin Luther King’s Legacy is being revived in the Poor People’s Campaign. Old singer/songwriters are re-emerging singing familiar songs of Peace. New songwriters are picking up the banner. I heard a great country song the other day. The public is walking the streets with signs and hearts crying out for Justice and Safety for our neighbors. We’re writing to our legislators, demanding they honor the wishes of the many not the few. Luckily for us, the hell-bent keep doubling down with the smoke and mirrors, nothing to see here. Crack! Crack! Crack!

As a Woman. As a Feminist. As a person who lives with the Sexual Assault I experienced. I am standing up. Speaking out. People want me not to mention Sexual Assault — not because they are protecting me, but rather because they don’t want to have to “imagine” it. Well. Let’s be clear the children in the Epstein files have had to do far more than imagine. The abuse that is recounted could be called unthinkable, except many male someones (and a few women) thought about it and rather than be repulsed, did it repeatedly. Over and over again.

As a chaplain, I work in an emergency room. I witness what arrives in the Trauma Bay. I’m there as support. I’m not the patient. I’m not part of the medical team that is having to use their skills to repair and heal these broken bodies. I am a person who offers comfort and stands steady in the horror. That’s my job. That’s my Work. That’s my Faith.

I also respond with images of Peace and Peacemaking. That is a deep part of my healing, to rest in Life’s Abundance. I’m also standing up in resistance to tyranny in the ways I am able.

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Hurrah for those who are standing up, lending their voices and actions. And for those jumping and widening the crack. If you are Black or Brown, Queer or Trans, you’re not wrong to be frightened about these gatherings. Do not join these protests without clear understandings from your community that you will be supported. I don’t know if I have the courage to step in front of people being harassed with a gun. I have stepped in front of others before but there were no guns. Now there are. It doesn’t make me comfortable. But it does make me determined. I, You, We are worth this. I, You, We’re the next Crack! United together, we can prevent this country from freezing over into hatred and violence. We can stop bending the knee to those who want complete dominance over We the People.

Make no mistake, our actions are breaking ice/ICE. And down will come Evil, plotting and all. I hope there’s redemption. I’ll even work for it. But I won’t allow a lack of it to keep me away from the work of Peacemaking. I won’t miss the opportunity to stand by you and for you. If I can be the Crack! that makes room for you and others, if you can be the Crack! that makes room for me and others, then those Cracks! are places of Peacemaking.

You know what? I’m going to draw a Tarot card and see whether I there’s advice to support our work. Well! Wisdom… Wisdom is always turning to learning from Innocence — and it’s taking our hard-won Wisdom with us. It’s asking us to honor the Wisdom of those who have been discriminated against forever and to learn from that. Let us balance our Wisdom with its application; the great value you place on it with the humility required for us to be Peacemakers. Hey you, wonderful people: I’ll see you on the sidewalks, where we are singing, singing for our lives and everyone else’s. Crack! Watch out for falling ice!

* Words from the incredible Yara Allen’s song written for the Poor People’s Campaign.

As I move through this life and these times, I am constantly looking to respond in Peaceful ways to all the horror happening in our country. As a Peacemaker, I understand my work to be helping the Sacred Village, here at home as well as globally, to respond to Creation and the Gift of Life to which we are heirs. My work is usually present tense; I want to help people understand that we are born to be Peacemakers. This is our work, our calling, on this Earth. Every day is a day to make Peace. So many people are at risk right now; the urgency is upon us.

The other day, I was – as I do – thinking. A phrase an old beau from Arizona used to employ came to mind. “Well, I’ll be go to hell,” which always made me laugh. I work in a business where I hear people worry about hell regularly. I blame lazy theological thinking. People come into the hospital, having led fine and upright lives and followed the laws of their tradition. So often in the fear of Death, an Almighty Judgement gets raised and crushes people’s ability to remember the wonders of their precious human being’s Life. Or in the face of Death, one of Life’s most amazing moments, they get caught up in denying the Possibility of Heaven to anyone else.

When I became a Unitarian Universalist, I was asked to struggle with a new way of thinking about Heaven and Hell. If you grew up Christian in the 50s and 60s in this country, you’ve thought a bit about heaven and hell. As I grew up, and then as I became clergy, I became far more interested in how we live now and less and less interested in thinking about an afterlife. But UUism is interesting, because Universalism is the notion that we all go to heaven. There is no ‘go to hell.’

After my dear friend Carolyn died, her brother had a dream – the sort of which was not a normal occurrence in his life – Carolyn was on the ‘Go to Heaven Bus’. This was a big yellow school bus and she was waving out the window as she left, along with everyone else who had died and was headed to Heaven that day. She was simply Joyous. I have cherished that image.

Unitarian Universalism offered a challenge for my delight in this “mythical” bus — If there was a bus, everyone would be on it. I would be on that bus with people I did not feel “deserved” that right. Additionally, I would be on that bus with a huge lesson to learn about judgment and purpose in this life: I cannot be cavalier about Love in this world. Everyone, no exception, deserves it. Everyone, no exception, deserves every opportunity to learn, to exercise forgiveness and grace and have them granted to them. If I forget that, please help me remember.

Now I don’t have any idea what I truly believe about Heaven. My focus is on the Present and being present in this life, this world. Quite frankly I don’t talk about Heaven unless I’m helping people die, which is actually part of my work as Chaplain. I can tell you that people die more easily if they are reminded that others are waiting for them, if their struggle is finished, and if they can then just relax into the beauty of a life well-lived and hopefully well-loved. The reassurance that there will be others waiting ‘on the other side’ often seems to send people off with a smile and an easier end. At that moment, as chaplain, I’m focused on comfort. The Absolute Truth, as I increasingly understand it, is that we are made of Love for Love. In my Thealogy, it only makes sense that we would return to Love.

The other day, I heard an ad, about something, I have no idea what, but that somehow caused me to wonder what it might be like if Heaven really is a place to rework our lives. One thing it could mean is that perhaps we could also work on our own growth and sense of Peacemaking Possibility right now, when we know it matters. I have to accept that, in this country I call home, there is currently a government I abhor. I can’t change them. But I can change the focus of my work, because I must be part of what models and creates Possibilities for Peace. The more of us who undertake that work, the less able this government will be to continue their monstrous behaviors.

Let us not be naïve. Our Peacemaking response will not be simple or short-term. But what we are seeing already, my friends, is remarkable and inspiring. Among others, Clergy of all traditions are showing up to proclaim Love in the face of greed, hate, and violence. Clergy are being warned by their higher-ups to get their affairs in order, and write their wills, because there will be demands on them – and on all of us – to stand for Justice.

This may seem overwhelming. Most of us are not prepared to put our beliefs or our lives on the line for our neighbor’s well-being. Some feel like we worked once before on civil rights and ending the Viet Nam War and shouldn’t have to do it again. We proved then that our efforts in nonviolent resistance and protest made the needed difference. Sadly, despotism and tyranny are not waiting for us to make decisions and take action. The Time has arrived. We have a lot more to do than wring our hands. Call your lawmakers. Make realistic choices about where you can make a difference. Choose the people you are called to defend. Gather your support. Choose your fellow Peacemakers. Start making plans. What’s happening in Minneapolis is so very likely going to be playing in a town square near you. You will be prepared to resist it because you have prepared yourselves. You will be prepared to resist it because you are amazing, talented, organized and ready to do what is needed to transform ugliness into a World of Welcome. A World of Abundance. A World of Peace.

It’s true there are those among us who are well-suited to bring this establishment down. That’s not me. I’m in awe of my friends who can. I’m built to work for Peace. We will be working simultaneously. Be realistic about where your efforts will be best utilized. I couldn’t go to Minneapolis with the Clergy last weekend, so I stayed at the hospital under snowy conditions so others didn’t need to risk their lives. I have acquaintances, friends, and experts whom I follow on social media and in hard copy. There are others who follow me. We are in this together, for each other, and for the betterment of our lives and our nation.

Let’s be Peacemaking in whatever ways best suit us. Let’s contribute to the health of the Great American Experiment. I believe that we can make this come true, even now. Let’s not waste time consigning people to imaginary fiery depths of hell. Our focus now is not on the judgment to come but on Present Peacemaking through non-violent resistance and care for the vulnerable.

The title of this article was taken from a song by Tuck and Patti. They wrote and sang a beautiful love song. Recently, I’ve found myself singing it as ‘love song as call to Peace action.’ Here are their words:

“What are you waiting for, believe in me
Isn’t it love in this life that you need
You can offer your soul to an altar of sacrifice
But give your heart to me

Let’s bring Heaven down here
Let’s bring Heaven on down
I don’t want to wait for the angels
Let’s bring Heaven down here.”

If we simply changed the first line to “What are we waiting for, believe in Peace, then “we” every time they sing you and then the last line of the verse becomes Peace, once again. My friends, then let us throw back our heads and sing out. Let’s use this as a call to righteous and tender living right down here. A Call to Peace.

Many don’t believe in an afterlife, but I’m not sure it negates the call to believe in what we imagine its qualities to be right here, right now. Why would we consider that only a few will be worthy, when worthiness isn’t the point, Loving Justice is. When Divine Love isn’t a ‘they’ll be pie in the sky when we die’ reward hoarded away but spread generously now. Whatever our tradition or philosophy, we are called to be kind, generous Peacemakers.  We are not to withhold our love. “Why should we wait for the angels? Let’s bring Heaven down here.”  Let’s give ourselves to Peace.

* Thealogy: I experience the world through the perspective of the Divine Feminine, and, thus, use Thea (the feminine of Theo) as prefix to -ology, which means systematic study. Hence Thealogy is the study and composition of the Knowledge of the Feminine Divine. I will explore this more thoroughly in a future Substack.

Salaam, Shalom, Peace, and Blessed Be!

The other day, I had a lovely conversation with my brother. My brother is ‘keeping company’ with a truly wonderful woman. Don’t you love that old phrase? What a nice thing to do with another person, to keep company. It holds a reminder that we are not alone. It seems to demand a certain tending to the relationship. It has expectations and agreements. We should allow ourselves to keep company not simply with those in whom we have romantic interests, but perhaps also with those who are our friends. Let’s keep our expectations of loving relationships — and what the heck — of interactions with strangers, high. Let there be cordiality among us while keeping company.

At Church one morning, a woman spoke of returning to her hometown for a bit. She realized that if there were anything anyone could say about her, it was that she was a child of her parents. My brother Tom has since done a lot of reflecting on that topic, and then we reflected, on how much we too were children of Betty and Sam — each a different mixture of the two, and Deb,  my now deceased sister, was as well. In last week’s article, I wrote about how differently my thought process works from Dad’s, Deb’s, and Tom’s. In those ways, I’m much more my Mother’s Child. It’s sad that Betty’s not here when I’m writing some of my poems, because she would have loved illustrating them. But I can’t complain too much because she taught me to feel into things, and my poetry is in its own way, homage to her.

As with other families, the ways we solved problems were not the only inheritances we received. I was very lucky growing up. There were certainly challenges as there are in any household where different personalities have to adjust to the family dynamic. And we all adjusted and responded differently. There were, however, family expectations that we, each, despite our different temperaments and personalities, learned which made life so much easier. It was expected of us that we be open and interested in those we encountered. And we are, and in Deb’s case, were. It wasn’t a matter of introvert/extrovert; it was a matter of understanding that everyone is interesting. And it was our job to discern that. I don’t know that I ever got a lecture on the subject, that was just the conduct that was expected of us — and it made life rich. In one way or another, everyone has an interesting life. None of us ever came to the dinner table without a story to tell about something we learned during the day or someone we interacted with.

What an incredible gift we were given. This gift seemed to be one that was valued in our family’s community. The people I still know from my early years are people who also can, by and large, hold conversations with friend and stranger alike. It has served us all well in our work and personal lives. I hadn’t really thought much about this, until Tom brought it up.

Keeping company is a skill I employ at the hospital. I’ve always thought that it was because I’m an extrovert. And that’s probably right enough. However, my brother is equally good at it, and he’s not anywhere near as extroverted as I am. Deb, like me, could transcend the boundaries of extroversion to full on Golden Retriever status. But the training isn’t something I’d quite thought through until that conversation with Tom.

Reflecting on that now, I think, oh, that’s why I envision Peacemaking as an activity of invitation. Come along and keep company with me. What do we have in common? Where do we find Beauty? How do we honor those things through our words and actions? This is why I can write a poem every day. Because every day, something is Wondrous. And when I focus on the Wondrous, I can share that with you and we can build a bond that may give us space to disagree — yet continue focusing on the Peacemaking.

Peacemaking is about keeping company and adhering to some of the social rules about being interested in our neighbors. Peacemaking is about keeping company in such a way that we are totally present with and for those we care about. Peacemaking may sound like something large and grandiose that happens on diplomatic levels and not here among those with whom we keep company. But this is where Peacemaking starts. When it works here, we develop a hunger to have that spread outside our groups, to believe that we have the right to ask our diplomats to be focusing on Peacemaking among the countries our nations keep company with. Because Peace is for everyone, everywhere.  We’ve got something, anything, to talk about — and from that we can build some Peace, no matter how small, no matter how large.

Want to keep company with me? Let’s find something warm to drink in this cold weather, shall we, and see how far we can stretch the Peace between us.

Salaam, Shalom, Peace, and Blessed Be!

On Monday, I had what could have been classified, had I so chosen, to be a no-good-very-bad day.  As it turned out, I was so fortunate that it was not.

On my way to work, my drive train, as my car guy said, ‘shredded.’ Under any circumstances, this cannot be defined as a good thing. It is also an expensive thing. However, there were mitigating circumstances that prevented it from turning into a not-good-very-bad-thing.

First: while I had a sinking feeling before things started to fall apart, the real knowledge that something was wrong happened approximately 200 yards from a parking lot at work. I managed to get the car into the lot before whatever was going to go wrong happened. Before heading into work, I put a note on the dash that my car had broken down and that I was calling AAA. (Belonging to AAA is a good idea for everyone, but when you’re a single senior woman, always have AAA.)

Second: when I walked in the door of the Emergency Room, the Registrar was a friend, and most importantly a neighbor. I asked, “can you wait an hour and take me home?” Of course. (My advice is to always make friends and I’ll keep adding, when you’re a single senior woman, always have friends. I have always relied upon the kindness of friends, to paraphrase ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’ Equally importantly, friends have been able to depend upon me.)

You don’t make friends because they’ll be useful to you. You make those connections because they make your world an infinitely better place. Together you’ll go places you might never go on your own. Relying on your friends’ loving eyes gives you a truer sense of who you are rather than listening to your own harsh judgements. I don’t know about you, but I’m a much braver woman in the company of friends. If you have read any of the posts from the ‘Gladly Beyond’ thread in this series, you’ve seen me plunging into the frigid waters of Antarctica. That’s all my friend Faye’s fault. First, we jumped into the icy Susquehanna River, then we jumped into the Antarctic Sea. Yikes! Life is infinitely more fun with friends. (And when you’re a single senior woman, having fun is one of the healthiest things you can do!)

Third: I was safe at work while I waited. It was simply a lucky coincidence that my car carried me to a safe harbor at my place of employment. I could tell the Guard on duty that my car was inappropriately parked, and why it needed to be there. He took care of informing the parking lot attendant.  I calmed myself down, taking comfort in knowing that I would bewarm and in a safe place while I waited for AAA to arrive.  (When you’re a single senior woman you’re a lot more aware how much safety means. If I’d been on the road, even though the car had warm clothing in it, I’d have risked exposure to the elements or to danger.)

Fourth: with AAA I had the support I needed to get my car to my repair shop. My Dad was very clear that I should always have AAA, and for as long as I’ve had a car, I have! And, while AAA is reliable, occasionally, it is not fast. I could get to my office, call them, and go about my work for the hour plus it took for them to arrive. Weirdly, the AAA truck came from the car repair shop my parents, my sister, my nephew, and I had all taken our cars to when we lived in Bloomsburg. The guy knew me (and when you’re a single senior woman, coincidences such as this amuse and delight you.).

Fifth: I called my shop. A guy I knew answered, I asked a bunch of questions, he assured me he’d take care of everything and we’d talk tomorrow. This was after I’d asked him how his knee replacement had gone and if the Christmas cruise had been fun. (When you own a 2005 vehicle, and when you’re a single senior woman, you find a repair shop you can rely on where people are happy to see you. I don’t have a Bar “where everyone knows my name,” but at my age and with my knowledge of cars, it’s far more important to have a car place “where everyone knows my name.”)

Now, I’m not going to kid you, it wasn’t fun to pay for. Nobody needs an extra expense headed out the door right after Christmas, but you figure that out, because you have to. Twenty-four hours later, I was driving a repaired and safe vehicle.

As I was picking up the car, the young guy behind the counter looked at me and said shyly, “I’ll bet you’ve had a lot of adventures with that car, haven’t you?” It caught me off guard. But he was right. I have. That Subaru and I have trundled around lots of places She’s particularly fond of upstate NY, CT, and RI.

So, as a single senior woman, what could have been a dangerous situation was simply a rather expensive inconvenience. As the song goes, “I got by with a little help from my friends.” I was safe and was able to do my work which I both cherish and which keeps me able to tackle car bills on credit cards. You don’t form and nurture Connections because you might need help some day. You cherish them as part of the celebration of Life and Peacemaking. However, when an unexpected event and expense comes along, you can rely on the Presence of those Connections. You recognize, and gratefully acknowledge the Peace that grows from that.

That’s what this single, senior woman has to say today — along with Salaam, Shalom, Peace, and Blessed Be!

I’m as flabbergasted as you are. It’s suddenly 2026. I’m a Tarot Writer and Reader. It’s the New Year. I’ve done a reading I want to share with you! I’m using my typical five-card Spread. My cards are specifically mine. My reading is similar to one that that many use but includes my own questions which address my understanding of the how the world works.

This is the layout with the cards I drew from a well-shuffled deck. I’m going to take a few lines to address the reasons I’ve laid the cards out in this format. I’ll take a quick look at the design of the cards. Then I’ll speak about what the cards might mean in their particular positions. Only then will I tie those cards together and offer some suggestions for what we might do together.

I moved away from the original pictured-centered expression of the cards. There are those, even though I see my cards as an interpretation of traditional tarot, who feel that I have taken Peacemaker’s Tarot too far. Aside from moving away from using the pictures for finding meaning, I’ve also worked very hard to move away from many of the isms that are, as I understand them, endemic to those pictorial representations. I chose a central word to represent the cards, bolstering those definitions with two ways that those cards are experienced. Those differences are linked by a one-sided, two-dimensional Möbius strip. Even traveling a different direction, they will endlessly meet again as they journey.

The first cards chosen are laid out in Past, Present, and Future. Overlooking them is the fourth card, from which our Fate, our Deepest Understanding, or perhaps, as I have called them, our Better Angels, suggest that we Stop! Look! Listen! to the connections and possibilities of these cards. What do your values demand you pay attention to? What are those values based in/on?

Then lastly, we take a look at the situation we’re living in and how it will impact our movement into the future we’re building toward.

NEWSFLASH: I had done the reading. Written the article. Set up the spread in a comprehensible fashion. Then my phone had alerted me that my country had invaded Venezuela. Whatever else I or you may think about this, I think we ought to consider what it means that the urgeeeerne

I’d like to ask you to consider this reading at two levels. First, what might this mean for your life?  Second, how will you participate in bringing the Future into existence for our community, our country? How do each of these categories respond to your personal and communal Peacemaking? How do they support our Democracy? Given the recent US invasion of Venezuela, how do the cards urge us to support the world’s rights?

1. The Past: So much happened over the last year. When you reflect on it, consider what happened that changed you? Were you a participant in that change? Or do you feel a bit blindsided? In the balance of gains and losses, how do you feel about those things? Do you feel that you attained important goals?
2. The Present. What if you were to re-imagine your Possibilities? Is your dream too small? Will it keep you from doing things that will move you into the Future you’d dearly love? Are you helping your community, your government, becoming the person you want to be, offering the best of yourself?
3. I think most of us have dreams for the future. A really important question to ask here is do we have plans to make these dreams come true? Good conversations help us know if our dreams are big enough — or too big!
4. I call this card ‘better angels’. If that’s an image that works for you, fine. If not, does the word Values work for you? Are you working from your values? Imagine how much more easily you will work if you do!
5. What’s the road you’re traveling? What is the atmosphere or the climate of our society, your career, your dreams, your relationships? How do you work most efficiently within those parameters?

Now let’s look at the cards we drew within the above parameters. We’ll look at them first card by card within the category it was chosen in and what that mean. Then we’ll look at them together and see what we might do, together and separately to bring Peace into the world. Let’s look at our own lives first.

1. The Card picked for the Past was XVIII–Reflection (if you use traditional Tarot, that’s the Moon card.) What messages of encouragement or undermining might you have missed in this time? What does looking back give you the power to discern that you might have found challenging when the past was your present, but now that it’s yesterday’s news, you’re able to see places where you might have done better and let’s be clear, places where you might have shined — and weren’t quite ready to acknowledge and take responsibility for? Look at that now — allow the Moon’s Magic to glimmer!
2. The Present had 0–Innocence as its card. You’re right here. What if, knowing that you are secure in where you are right now, you took the opportunity to look with new eyes at what is possible right now. Be curious about the options, relying on the safety of your strengths. There is more in you than you have been willing to take responsibility for. Explore them. Many of us have no clear idea who we might allow ourselves to be!
3. Wow! The Future is XVI–Interference. Do you know that that card did not show up at all in the Moon readings I did on line for 2025. And, yet, as I was drawing cards for the first Bright of the Moon in 2026, the card drawn was exactly this. It’s time for us to interfere in what is going on in our world. How do we do that? Together. Time to start widening our circles! Who does what you do well? Invite them on the Peace walk. Who has talents that make the best use of your gifts? They’re your partners. Time to make some good trouble. No better way to make it than on a PeacePath!
4. What do your Better Angels have to offer? IV–Creation. It’s an act of daring that calls on your courage to consider your deepest abilities and then it urges you to bridge the gaps you encounter between your Peacemaking and another’s. We’re all on the same journey.
5. And what journey is that? XVII–Leadership. We’ve been holding back long enough. It’s time for us to assume responsibility for how our part of the Peace journey goes. Are you the one who packs the snacks? The one who plots the route? The one who makes new friends (who also have good snacks!) Are you the dreamer? Or the Engineer. Or as so many of us are, really good at organizing the small things, comforting the weary, encouraging the uncertain. There is work (both large and small) for all of us in the work of Peacemaking.

Thanks for reading. I know not everyone is interested in cards. However, I found that these cards were not giving answers, but rather asking good questions about how we live our lives as individuals and as part of communities, whether you’re talking about a family or a nation. Now is the time to ask those questions. How are you doing that? I wish you all a Meaningful and Peaceful 2026.

Salaam, Shalom, Peace, and Blessed Be!

What surprises, adventures, challenges, and wishes will the New Year hold for us? With resolutions and intentions, we have the opportunity to view the year as a new beginning, a clean slate on which to write a new story. Rather than our same resolutions, by which I mean new solutions to old problems, what if we were to focus on real problem solving for ourselves and our world? What would it be like to enter the New Year, if we didn’t see ourselves as escaping from 2025, but rather as fueling our hearts with the lessons we’ve learned about our gifts and where they’re needed? What if all of our intentional solutions for the world in 2026 were Love and Peacemaking?

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