hold on, love well

   

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A breeze blew in from the patio, through the screen door, and ruffled the hair on his damp forehead. He thought, as he had not done since high school, about the way the breeze was composed of a trillion trillion agitated molecules that he could not see. 

He thought, with the wondering pedantry of a sixteen-year-old boy, about the way every object around him, including himself, his body, was made of invisible things.


—Michael Chabon 
A Model World

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We are not alone in this struggle for the re-creation of our own lives and the life of our community. [We] are part of an ageless, pulsating membrane of light that is filled with the lives, hopes, and beatific visions of all who have fought on, held on, loved well, and gone on before us. 

[This] task is too magnificent to be carried by us alone, in our house, in our meeting, in our organization, in our generation, in our lifetime—we are all a part of one another, and we are all part of the intention of the great creator spirit to continue being light and life.

[We are to seek out] … a path that expresses our own searching - expanding the confidence in the healing power of the universe, in the presence of a loving, leading Power, exposing us always to the harsh and the tender, to the dreadful and the compassionate, prying our lives open to the evidence of things unseen.

—Vincent Harding

historian, activist, author, preacher

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