It Is Better To Light Candles

 The world needs all of our power and love and energy,

and each of us has something that we can give. The trick is 

to find it and use it, to find it and give it away.

So there will always be more.

This is no easy assignment inundated as we are with 

disturbing news from every direction.

I am reminded of these words I heard back in 2016.

Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement. . .

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. 

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass 

to tip toward an enduring good. 
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth 

to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group 

who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale."

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I'm concentrating on small, calm things even if its simply breathing myself

through difficulties as they arise knowing this small gesture 

is contributing to the tipping point of lasting goodness for all.

We're in this together.

Namaste'