The book, Web of Hope by Rudolf Bahro says:
“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.”
So friends, in these days how does that quote make you feel? I mean I think we are in a time longing for hope. Longing for someone to tell us…It is all going to be Ok. And I believe that is true. It is going to be ok, all of it. However, in the midst of that, I must come to understand that it is not going to be the same. Could this be a hint of the great transition. I mean we all agree that on certain dates we turn our clocks back or forward for the sake of a principle I don’t really fully understand. But, as a society we assent to that common way.
If this is the Great Transition we are set to find new ways of being people together on this planet. Where but for all but 4 or 5 of our species have our feet on the same earth. The covenant we make with one another is to be here together.
Children everywhere are born under the spell of gravity. The convention of gravity. It is a given. I believe we accept that. If not can you see little ones having to be tied down so they don’t fly up to the ceiling or treetops or into the sky? No not one more thing to worry about. “So, has your little one learned gravity yet?”
I suppose that to consider the quote about culture we have to agree that the old culture is dying. My observation is that it is. That there is a tectonic shift in the way we look at things, at one another, at the planet, at the way we care for one another and the way we say yes to being true God-children of the Holy One. Have we learned that yet? Once we have agreed on that part of the quote we need to accept that there will be a time of dwelling in unknowing.
In order to let go, of the old we must admit that certain actions can cause this sift and there is no going back. No going back from seeing cruelty and murder. No going back from recognizing the pain of hunger or the blight of war. No going back from seeing beatings and tear gas and apathy on the part of the perpetrators. And no going back from our own acceptance of our culpability in all of it.
Years ago we were flying out of Salt Lake City to Florida. I had observed a young boy and his grandfather at the gate before we boarded. He was obviously excited. The grandfather told the flight attendant it was his first flight. Luckily, they were seated right behind us. The banter went something like this..
Oh thanks Grandad for taking me on this plane ride. I is the first time I’ve ever been on a plane. It is s much fun and I really like it. The plane began to move from the gate and he felt us moving. Oh Grandad this is so much fun I like flying a whole lot. We moved to the runway the sounds were getting louder. His voice got a little more excited and hesitant. I think this will be fun, right Grandad are we going to go faster. The plane got into position and began streaming down the run way. The boy talked faster and faster. I’m not sure now if this is good, We are going really fast, What was that noise? Grandad will we be ok?
Grandad told him to look out off the window, chunk, we were up in the sky. Silence.
Is this flying? Grandad? Do I like this? He.rests back and about that time we hit an air pocket and bump some. Is that supposed to happen? I don’t think we should do this. I think we should go back down to the ground and just go home.
Just breathe, Grandpa said to him. The plane reached cruising, the plane leveled off it got much much quieter. Oh Grandad I love flying this is the best fun ever.
In this time, in these times, we need to have the ability too rest back and realize that we are on a good ride. That each opportunity we have on that ride the real angst and the real fun is a way to the new times. We can bring along the good. We are to bring in the good. We are to walk with others who are unsure of ungroundenness and let it be ok for them.
Can we be hope bringers who can learn how to lead others to walk ahead with our shoes off and our plans unhinged and smile and laugh in comfort and to be about being the people who can help shape a more fair and just and/ freed society. Say Yes… here we go!
GOD ABIDES
Bobbie McGarey, @2020 Raton, NM
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