If America’s heart is cut out, will people finally be happy?
I think the answer is…
yes.
Yes, some will. They are already elated over recent cuts, such as humanitarian aid, in the name of government efficiency. Compassion is such a waste of money anyway.
But here’s what I’m seeing. Some of us are going the opposite direction. We don’t want government waste any more than anyone else, but the target should be greed and selfishness, not goodness. Goodness isn’t waste. And further, we don’t want a soul-less country.
So we’re rising up. We’re choosing to fight this heart removal attempt. We’re gonna need a lot of love, our best weapon.
This might sound a little poetic for these times, but we need to keep our eyes on the prize as our feet hit the ground.
When author Diana Butler Bass recently mused on what comes next, she used the phrase “love relentlessly.” Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer heard her words and ran with ’em. This is our time to enter the battle for our heart with our #1 weapon.
“Love relentlessly.
Even saying the words aloud invites
both softness and ferocity into the chest,
makes the heart throb with simultaneous
urgency and willingness. A radical pulsing
of love, pounding love, thumping love,
a rebellion of generous love,
tenacious love, a love so foundational
every step of what’s next begins
and continues as an uprising,
upwelling, ongoing, infusion
of love, tide of love, honest love.”