Don’t stop believing

This sure is a message for this particular time and place, isn’t it? Well, the chorus anyway. Not the whole lovers on the boulevard thing. Anyway, I wanted to share the cutest 5th graders in the world with you and then I started to ponder how believin’, as it were, and Lovemore are related. Angela and I have talked a lot over the past year about how there are simply more challenges for almost everyone these days. And like everyone else, we get all caught up in the panic from time to time when we momentarily do stop believing. Oh do we ever. Usually around midnight, speaking our fears and letting the tears roll on a park bench in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

That said, we’re so thankful that we now have a spiritual home to return to in the mantra “love more.” Our belief that choosing love more is the answer to any and every question invariably grabs us by our shoulders, stops our spinning, and maneuvers us around until we are again pointed in the right direction. And from that perspective we see that there is an amazing gift in these difficult times. In the midst of a stressed out world, we as individuals can choose to grow our hearts big enough to hold this new level of challenge in love. We have the opportunity (perhaps unwelcome, but an opportunity nonetheless) to love*uncertainty*more, love*change*more, and love*vulnerability*more. As we practice bringing love instead of fear to what is tender, everything starts to shift and, well, we are 99.99% sure that is what will change the whole game. And that, we will never stop believin.