☀️ The Daily Boost #847
Sorrow is how we learn to love
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MORE LOVE, MORE LOVE
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Sorrow is how we learn to love.
—Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
If sorrow is how we learn to love,
then let us learn.
Already enough sorrow’s been sown
for whole continents to erupt
into astonishing tenderness.
Let us learn. Let compassion grow rampant,
like sunflowers along the highway.
Let each act of kindness replant itself
into acres and acres of widespread devotion.
Let us choose love as if our lives depend on it.
The sorrow is great. Let us learn to love greater—
riotous love, expansive love,
love so rooted, so common
we almost forget
the world could look any other way.
(My thanks to Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, via A Hundred Falling Veils.)
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This: “Let us choose love as if our lives depend on it.”
Well our lives DO depend on it right now, with all the insane political rhetoric filled with hatred & violence being spewed out in this torturous pre-election circus in the United States.
🙏❤️🙏Choose Love
🕊 May peace prevail 🙏
Beautiful and true.