We all need each other because we are part of endless communities, beginning with the stars. We are in the circle of the galaxy, the sun, and the earth, and then our country and our city, and finally the family in which we live. Not to mention the fact that our body itself is a community of 50 trillion cells.
Once we become old enough for friends, we become involved in the human community beyond our family. Those circles continue throughout our lives in countless ways. And beginning with our body’s cells, we aim for health and harmony in all of the communities of which we are a part.
Yet, all around us in our country and in the world, things are very chaotic at this time, and people are polarized.
Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, said, “We are in the middle between an old civilization breaking down and a new, more evolved civilization rising. We are facing the equivalent of metamorphosis. Before a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, it goes through a pupa stage, which looks very much like a stage of chaos. There’s a pattern in that chaos, though—it’s not random. That’s what’s happening in our civilization now. This chaos we are in is a necessary stage in human evolution.
“The younger generations—people who are under 40—are crucial in this process because they are not incorporated into the system. In fact, younger people make up more than half of the total population, and they don’t care about the current system. That’s why the system is on very shaky legs. If the young people decide to come together in community, they can change civilization’s evolutionary path in one election cycle.”
I have always remembered a wonderful quote by Theologian Matthew Fox. He said, “Patriarchy is fear of the chaos of the Goddess.” He went onto explain that the Goddess—Divine feminine—is creative, and creativity is often chaotic and messy, like metamorphosis.
When we come together in community to make the world a better place, that is in fact exactly what happens—we make the world a better place. Anthropologist Margaret Mead said, “Never underestimate the power of a small group to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
We need each other! And together, we can make a difference!
Love & blessings,
Rev. Kathy