A moment of surrender, a moment of eucatastrophe

I understand hurt.

I understand pain.

I understand loss.

But may we as a country, as a people, as humankind learn to overcome our hatred for the unknown and for one another.

May we remember that even two brothers, whose descendants were sworn to fight each other for — generations to come — still came together to bury their dead.

Abraham’s sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. – Gen 25:9-10

May we, as Insurgents of Love, remember that hatred never wins — it has a 100% rate of failure.

May we, as Insurgents of Love, remember that we’re called to something greater.

May we, as Insurgents of Love, remember that there’s only one thing that’s ever won — and only one thing that will ever win — and that’s love.

May we, as Insurgents of Love, learn to love deeply, strongly and more generously than ever before.

May we, as Insurgents of Love, find moments of surrender, where we lay aside our own wants, needs and demands and build spaces of grace for all.

May our love outshine the hatred that surrounds us.

May our love permeate the darkness of night and may our love bring forth eucatastrophe.

“I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: ‘We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you — But be assured that we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.'” — Martin Luther King Jr.

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Want more? Listen to my interview with Eric Bryant as we talk about diversity and my interview with Jamie Moffett as we talk immigration and our country’s fear of the unknown.