I just wrote...
one of the happiest gospel songs I have ever written,
And it's not because I always write gospel (do like to sing it) and it's not because I'm happy all the time these days (far from it) but it's because I live and breathe and have wonderful communities like this to share things with.
And just reached out to some of the hippest most spiritual people I know on Facebook and on the planet and I felt a vibe and I feel a vibe where I'm knowing we have go to reach out and love and communicate with each other more than ever before. And drown out this despair we can e feeling with a joyful and righteous noise.
And I remember Kamala preaching in the churches she visited just in the last few weeks.
And this is time, as good as ever, for us to community ourselves and to invite others in as well - those who pay adherence to reality and good things. And we need to keep up the clamor until it's just about impossible to misalign and misrecognize.
And one of my students tonight spoke about how a teacher can reach out and influence a student out there with the smallest little gesture. And so too, can we all, reach out and not only comfort each other but lend a helping hand and a little bit of consciousness.
And if you know how to sing, then sing, and if you know how to preach then preach.
And then I also thought tonight, and I know those who don't believe such things may or even will scoff, but I thought, "I am a divine vessel of God and no Donald Trump is going to do anything about that!!!
Here's what I am saying - we've just got to keep putting out the most joyful and righteous noise we can to drown out all the dysfunctional nasty messages from the other side - in whatever form they come in and to turn our own firehoses of creativity on in in whatever medium and practice and dimension we can muster. And we can sustain ourselves and find community and work with purpose and change the world and enjoy the heck out of ourselves while we do it. And the other side, well, they have long since learned how to experience true pleasure or to party and that shows in all their affairs. They are the sad ones, in the lack of wisdom, experience, and joy - not us.
And on that I say Amen.