We’re All In This Together
“Sorrow, people used to say, is a river. And if you let sorrow move through you, it will wash out those things that are no longer full of life. Grief, people used to say, is an ocean. And in a sense, there are times when everything has to go back to the ocean in order that we all be washed clean, in order that the deep waters from which life came can absorb those things that are no longer contributing to life.
With the amount of people dying, with the amount of conflict and separation and division, with the amount of loss, it is surprising that we’re not all in the ocean of grief. The sense of denying grief is close to the sense of denying death, and denying death eventually turns out to mean denying life. We are all living in the battle between life and death. And that should be a cause of grief for everyone.
…but if everyone would acknowledge the loss and the grief that is under the surface of conflict and hatred and division, there would be a melting of all that polarizes and denies and rejects, there would be a falling into the depths of humanity, where sorrow and grief and tears can wash away those things that are deadly and need to be relinquished so that we can all live, so that we could all realize how much we are all in this together…in the old way of understanding that we’re all walking the road of life and death. And despite all the…
