I cannot know this, for this is not something I have come to know this life.
Yet, in seeing many parents selflessly and endlessly love, I see the power of that love and the moments when it is both tough and tender.
I also see the futility of seeking to control the life of another soul whose ways may seem errant or extreme. For all those thousands of meals cooked with love, and many more hugs given freely with fulsomeness, a parent can give many, many hours of their time and energy to a child on its path to adulthood and that child can, in an instant, make a choice that scuttles or subverts it or can see them do something utterly unloving as harm themselves in hateful and fateful ways.
Finding healthy, helpful ways to raise consciousness brings about safety, not from fear but through deep reverence and respect for the preciousness and fragility of being human.
Through healing ourselves, we naturally heal those around us or who are descendants of us.
Through healing ourselves, we reveal a path to freedom that is inspiring and liberating.
Through healing ourselves, we permit love to enter more fully and freely to create a new world.
May love find its way through and from the heart of humanity for all…