We’ve been through a lot,
and we are still losing loved ones and colleagues.

One of the best things that we can do for ourselves is pause and hold ourselves in
an energy of love, compassion and care.

“Where does it hurt?” we can ask those dear to us.

Perhaps we can take a moment to feel each other’s pain and allow it to be felt, to mourn it, and process it with whatever it takes for us.

As James Baldwin said, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

The best remedy that I have ever used for pain is love. Love with patience, love with acceptance, love with humility, love with truth, love with capacity, love with a God more encompassing than race or shape or status or form. When I love, the pain begins to subside. Eventually it goes away, and there at its center is something beautiful, something unexpected.

Truth is always buried beneath the soul of our suffering. Truth is always the miracle that we seek. Truth is the prayer spoken in silence and the need satisfied before we even ask. Truth knows that we can come to the altar and ask for nothing because in love, we have everything we need.

Here is some love for your pain and suffering. Here is a moment for you to sit and tend your wounds. Here is a bandage of hope stirred with the power of the absolute good that Spirit breathes into as us.

I enfold your heart
in the infinite blessings of love
expressed through me.

I know for you,
in case you don’t know
for yourself,
that we will be better and stronger and more loving for ourselves, our families, our friends, our networks, our jobs, our governments, our communities, our countries, our world, and all of its surrounding billions of planets.

Here is a breath
that we can
breathe together,
always
knowing
that on the other side
of pain
is love.

Here is a moment that we can use
to heal ourselves.