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Today, I will shine this little light

Today my heart wants to honor the life of Martin Luther King, but in the current climate of racial relations our society, my brain begs me not to.  I’m aware that I feel completely inept, unqualified and quite honestly nervous, about saying the correct thing.  I worry about coming across cliche or trite on a day like today.  It feels unsafe either way.  Silence is clearly wrong, but a white girl speaking up with the wrong words can bring backlash.  One thing I’ve learned over the years is that speaking up, when my voice is shaking, is often the most important time to speak.

So today I’m writing, when it would have been more “comfortable” to pass.

Reading Dr. King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail, reminds me that same desire for self-preservation, and “absence of tension” by the good-willed white moderate was exactly what kept them silent.  It was also the most bewildering part …

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It’s the going first

 

Earlier this week, I saw a post on Jen Hatmaker’s Facebook page that stopped me to stare for a minute.  She was with five other women on a boat, bundled up in sweaters, smiling with so much peace.  I have to admit, for a moment, I felt myself long for that.  I loved the image, because I love Jen, and love seeing women support one another, then I moved on.

Yesterday, those same women went live together, addressing the very thing I felt.  

They explained that every January they get together for a little “friend’s retreat” of sorts. Each year when they post photos, they receive comments from women all over the web.  Women who, like me, see their pics and long for deeper, more consistent community with other women.  So they decided to hop on a quick live broadcast to talk about what it really looks like.  They shared the story of …

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Two options

Waking up to a world in this much pain can cause even the strongest among us to want to pull the covers back over our heads or make a mad dash for the safety of the hills.  Some days the news of the plight of our fellow humans is almost unbearable.  It devastates us.  It breaks our hearts.

It makes us angry. 

I’m currently reading Brené Brown’s book, “Braving The Wilderness, The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone.”  It is simultaneously poking me in all the uncomfortable places, while giving me a sense of being completely understood and seen.  It intrigues me to the core, in my tireless work for connection and community between women, because she gets right to the core of the lines that divide and isolate us.

As much as we think it’s anger, it’s really pain.  

“Most of us were not taught how to recognize pain, …

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