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I am so grateful for the “30 Days of Love” series from Side With Love. This resource, provided weekly between MLK Jr day and Valentine’s/Palentine’s Day, provides timely and relevant resources for folks needing spiritual nurture, grounding, and suggestions for faithful action. (Check out a sample video, start with Week 1’s packet or peruse all past 30DOL posts). It’s long haul work bending “the moral arc of the universe toward justice.” Reclaiming or building your resilience amid the whirlwind and pressures of living can mean the difference between burning brightly or burning out. Remember to top up the tank when your spiritual fuel runs low.
Knowing how and when to top up your tank is part of the work of building resilience. The 30DOL resource is just one of many ways, likely you already know many that work for you. Finding the balance between the struggles of daily life and the struggles of a hurting world is challenging and essential. It may mean figuring out “the next right thing” to do in any given situation, discerning a sustainable combination of your unique gifts, passions, and limitations. What are your talents? What strengths can you lend? What are the limits important to honor to make room for others’ whose work you cannot do, or cannot do right now? Sing your songs, call your friends, meditate, be in nature, grieve wholeheartedly, embrace joy with your whole soul, center love, fear not, try again. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Yours in faith,
Rev. Samara
Samara Powers (they/none)
Unitarian Universalist Minister
"Justice is what love looks like in public." Dr. Cornel West
*Generally, if someone indicates “none” here it means to use a name instead of a pronoun for that person. For example, “Fenwick wants you to refer to Fenwick by name instead of using any pronouns when speaking about Fenwick.” If someone indicates more than one type of pronouns choice here, usually that means either way is suitable/welcomed.
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