10.6.23 - Psalm 72:4
How do you listen to your gut when the opportunity to push back again oppression happens? What's one step you might take to act instead of just listening?
May they defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.
The idea that there is a solution for all that ails us is so appealing to me that I get caught in magical thinking about ways we can be healed from all that harms.
I enter into a full-on fantasy, ala Mickey Mouse in Fantasia with his magic broom: complete about-faces from leaders that abruptly shift our course and save us from certain calamity.
They are absorbing fantasies that can leave melancholy and paralysis in their wake when I again look at the pain within and around me with my natural eyes.
For me, faith is the place where the natural world and my inner-knowing of a different, more loving way meet up.
While I cannot have access to a magic broom, I do have access to relationship and presence with others. I do have access to the magic of listening to the oppressed and taking action in ways I am invited by them to act.
How is my inner-knowing telling me to act in response to oppression today? What is a single action I can take in response to this communication?
--Dax Franklin-Hicks