All change brings anxiety. All possibility requires change. We each need tools in our spiritual toolbox to help us manage the anxiety that moving into a different future will bring.
How do you cultivate a non-anxious presence in your being? What are the spiritual practices that help you manage your anxiety about the future?
Possibility requires embracing complexity. Because everything is connected, what is possible for us is connected to what is possible for all beings.
How do you embrace complexity?
Adrienne Maree Brown entreats us to keep our hope “in a place that’s safe,” to cultivate a “faith that lets [us] be a part of humanity.”
How do we protect our hope against the cynicism and despair of the world?
All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.”
-Octavia Butler
How do you welcome change into your life?
When things are uncertain, we search for steadiness around us. We seek those things and people that remind us that we are here, we are whole, we are loved, and we are enough.
What are the things (or people) you lean on in times of uncertainty?
