Author: clfuu

As 2020 and 2021 was filled with so much death and destruction, especially of Black and brown bodies, I have turned to trying to understand or uncover different spiritual traditions and their understandings of mysteries. If I am connected to the divine or there are mysteries to explore and comprehend, then the sacred  cannot be denied to me because of the body I currently inhabit, which is something I didn’t believe before. That idea gives me solace.

How do you feel your body is connected to the universe?

When I was a child growing up Muslim, I never internalized Allah as a person. My mother always referred to Allah as energy. It was always a mystery to me what a divine being who was energy would look like. A sunburst? A comet? A shooting star? The moon? I never could come up with a visual and as a child it was important that I try. I’m grateful as an adult that I never did, because now I embrace the mystery that is the holy and the unknown.

How do you experience the mystery of the divine, the holy and the sacred?

“We, bearers of the dream, affirm that a new vision of hope is emerging.
We pledge to work for that community in which justice will be actively present.
We affirm that there is struggle yet ahead.
Yet we know that in the struggle is the hope for the future.
We affirm that we are co-creators of the future, not passive pawns.
-Loretta Williams

Where is hope emerging in your life? How can you co-create it?

In the Christian season of Advent, the spiritual task before followers is waiting. Waiting for the birth of a new era, waiting for goodness to return to the world, waiting.

How do you make waiting possible in your life?

Today is International Persons with Disabilities Day. Reflect on the things that your body can do–and the things your body cannot do. Reflect on the ways your brain works differently from the brains of others. Reflect on the barriers to access erected throughout our society and what it would take to dismantle them.

How can you make something more accessible to someone today?