July 2020 Love Note

Co-vid 19 is striking the world hard. Staying in faith is requiring real effort, and more than ever there is a need for support. . . for each other and for the planet. If you’re struggling, as I have been too, I hope you remember you’re not alone. Reaching out to your people, —family, friends, or professionals—can help steady the mind and soften that heavy, sinking feeling that can come in moments like this. I find myself returning again and again to the quiet ways people are showing up for each other by feeding, helping, and gently opening long-held walls to connect in more tender ways.

These past months I’ve been taking pictures with my iPhone, noticing beautiful light, writing poetry, and spending time in the peacefulness of nature… letting that steady, bountiful energy meet me where I am, like the freshness of a good rain after a long stretch of dry Montana summer heat.

Finding our way through this, healing ourselves and the planet, will take time. It feels like a very long arc that we're in for. A shedding. A returning. Maybe even a quiet re-learning of what it means to live with awareness, intention, and a sense of shared life.

This image and poem came from one of those walks. A small moment of reaching for my light. If you linger with it for a breath, I hope it meets you wherever you are. Take what you need from it. Leave the rest. Share your light when you can.

Many warm energy hugs from right where I stand now.
—Mary xoxo