An Ancestral Call to Humility (in these times.)

If your feminism has not yet brought you to the practice of love, pray for humility.

If your notion of Justice has not yet brought you to the practice of peace, pray for humility.

Justice is not what love looks like in public*
Love is what Justice looks like in public.

Love is the energetic of Justice we can practice.

Humble your hearts, beloveds.

What is missing from our collective non-indigenous / insistence on the reality of the secular experience, is that, after all of this:

Through elections of facists around the world, through Hong Kong losing its liberties, through Tigray and Uighur people fighting for their lives, through refugees from climate, war, famine, through floods, through Hawaii on fire, Italy on Fire, Canada on Fire, life everywhere on fire and under fire: through Mr. Floyd, Ms. Taylor, through the uprisings for Black life, trans life, all life, clean air, non-plasticed water, through all the quakes and all the canes,

We have collectively failed to humble ourselves.

Humbling ourselves means admitting we alone are not the arbiters of solutions or the arbiters of Justice. We are not solely anything. There is no “solely.”

“Solely” is a concept that disappears in a humble heart.

Which we cannot understand through an insistent western mind.

Even if that mind of separation convinces itself that it is “right.”

Consider that there is no being right.

This consideration is a humility practice.

An exercise in expansion beyond the frameworks that got us here.

Humbling ourselves means acknowledging, remembering and repatriating ourselves to the greater web of all life. It means releasing our false grip on the illusions of separateness.

It means talking less and listening more.

It means getting on our knees when we’re used to standing and shouting and crying out.

It means crying out to earth and being patient enough to wait for a response.

It means trusting that there will be a response and learning to decipher said response.

It means being the child and keeper.

It means respecting that there isn’t a way in the ways of thought that have looped us here.

So preferably on your knees, a position of humility to all of life, to all that is working beyond our scope,

say thank you to the old way, say goodbye to the former way of you, your family, your community, your patch of land, your your.

Your your is dead, beloved.

And in that, righteousness is not yours.

That is humility.

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*Quoting Dr. Cornel West’s famous declaration on Justice