We are all waking up to all the ways that the lies we have believed about ourselves and one another have caused pain, and instead we are choosing Love. And when we do that, and keep doing that, ALL WILL BE WELL.
W: Wake Up
W: We not me.
W: Well. All will be well.
W: When we choose Love and keep choosing Love. When we live Love.
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There’s a lot of talk these days about how we are going to heal our world from the divisions that are killing us, from the destructive behaviors that are devastating our planet. In this month’s heart-centered practice of we, I have been both practicing and blogging about shifting out of me-first thinking into to we-first living. This is the essence of recovery. Recovery is what we are all seeking. So why not take a page from the Twelve Step movement and admit that we have all become powerless because we have sought fear-based answers to fear-produced problems that have made us feel that we no longer live in Love. Our lives HAVE become unmanageable. But when we remember that there is a Power greater than ourselves that can restore us to sanity, to wholeness — and that that Power is Love — then we can consciously choose to live Love by turning our wills and lives over to Love — as we understand Love. In other words, live Love.
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If I see myself as one with you in Love, then I know we share common ground.
If I see you as one with me in Love, then I know we are both the loved of Love.
If every choice I make is made with the goal of the best possible outcome for we instead of me, then I have to turn my thoughts, beliefs, decisions and actions over to Love — or I’m not choosing we. Only Love can guide a we-first choice.
Groupthink is fear-based. Wethink is Love-based.
Groupthink is me first. Wethink is we first.
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The word welcome comes from the Old English wilcuma — ‘a person whose coming is pleasing’. The first element was later changed to wel- ‘well’, influenced by Old French bien venu or Old Norse velkominn .
The word welcome connotes an invitation, joy in being in the company of another, a desired connection.
The word welcome begins with the word we.
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So how do we shift the pattern? Get quiet. Look all around us at the world showing us how. “And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here.”
And what is here is Love.
Today, instead of judgment, I get quiet in heart and in eye, clear. And I will listen to the Love that is here.
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Will is a closed fist.
Willing is an outstretched hand.
Will is a hard declarative statement.
Willing is a soft connective question.
Will is a hard boot on pavement.
Willing is walking softly upon our earth.
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Every white person in the world has to keep looking at our histories and our habits and our assumptions and our privilege. We have to keep having the hard conversations and building new coalitions and connections. But we also have to invite Love to the table to transform all of our thoughts and words and actions into heart-centered practices.
In recent years, creating heart-centered practices has healed a lifelong habit of rude and chronic lateness. I was never ever on time — and it infuriated everyone who loved me or who worked with me. I have healed the looming presence of my mother in my life that I used to keep me in cripplingly virulent self-loathing. So I know this stuff works.
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Yesterday social media was blacked out. It was a great symbolic gesture — just as kneeling as become a symbolic gesture. But are symbolic gestures enough? They are certainly a start.
But for real transformation to happen, I believe that we must all be down on our knees both in humility and in prayer to the Love that is the only thing that can heal all our wounds.
We are living in a country where at the highest level there is no heart-centered Love-based leadership. So it is up to each of us to love even more. To get down on our knees and acknowledge our part in the problems. To get down on our knees in humility and honesty. To get down on our knees in deep conversations about change. To get down on our knees and invoke the Love that can heal. And to keep getting down on our knees in communion, solidarity, and prayer.
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Today my heart-centered practice is to speak we. And to speak we all day long.
Because
Silence equals complicity.
Silence equals complacency.
Silence equals avoidance.
Silence equals acceptance.
Silence equals denial.
Silence equals violence.
We have to raise our voices to speak the Truth in Love.
That is how we speak we.
We cannot keep living me-centered lives as if something that is happening to someone else or another community is not our issue. ANYTHING THAT IS NOT LOVE NEEDS HEALING.
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This month’s heart-centered practice is to release the illusion that I am some separate me. Separate from Love. Separate from others. Separate from our world. Separate from our planet.
This month’s practice is to live we.
I have no idea what that will look like. Or what this blog will hold. That’s the beauty of heart-centered practice. Heart-centered practice isn’t like learning the piano or hitting a thousand tennis balls. It is about learning to listen to Love, learning to lean into Love, learning to live Love. By practicing listening, leaning into and living Love. In everything we do. Every single day.
All I know today to guide this heart-centered practice of “we” is what I learned from last month’s heart-centered practice of wholeness. We cannot heal unless we are whole. Which means that there is no whole, healthy, holistic, holy me unless we are whole, healthy, holistic and holy.
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