One way or another

“Heartbreak and hope are not mutually exclusive. We can be angry and sad and filled with longing for something we cannot have, and simultaneously we can be grateful for what we’ve got-aware, for reasons we’d never choose, of what really matters and what doesn’t.”Lennon Flowers

This week we decided who our next president will be
Some will be delighted, satisfied and full of joy 
Others will be disappointed, disillusioned and dismayed 
Half of our country is feeling one way
The other half will be feeling the opposite 
Most of us will never meet a president 
But, all of us will be with families that voted differently than we did
How one man is or isn’t shouldn’t alienate you from your mom, kids, siblings or dad
We can thrive as a people, not just survive 
We can all find a way to do this
But, we need to do it together 
We can be a bridge in our lives
We can stand in the gap and be love
We can overlook a lot
We can forgive and feel for how someone else is feeling 
We have not gone so far that we’ve forgotten that we are all in this together 
We are all connected 
We are all concerned for our families 
Our health
Our economy and all those small businesses that need us
We are a country of survivors 
We are known around the world as a great nation
We make that possible 
Each of us has a choice everyday-
To be the best version of ourselves 
To be kinder than necessary, to everyone 
List what you are grateful, everyday 
Trust that’s it’s all going to be ok
Each of us can be a light 
We can all bring in joy
Dr. Dyer always said-“When you change your thoughts you change your life and when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”
We create the road by walking it 
We create the world by living it
We create community by being a friend and understanding how other people feel 
Even if we feel the opposite 
Sister Joan Chittister says, “To be one, we don’t need one party, one program, one set of policies. What could be duller, more stagnant, more destructive of the soulfulness it takes to create and preserve the best of the human enterprise than such a narrow-minded view of planetary life?  What we need is one heart for the world at large, a single-minded commitment to this “more perfect union,” and one national soul, large enough to listen to one another for the sake of the planet—for the sake of us all.”
And to that, I say Amen