While we may want to close ourselves up,
to protect ourselves from injury and harm
during this time of cruelty and injustice,
we also know that we must sometime open up.
We know that Spring is a time of opening:
trees and flowers open into bloom,
the earth opens to sun and rain,
hibernating animals open to new life,
and we open ourselves to possibility.
Let us pause for a moment of quiet
as we consider how and when
we might open ourselves to possibility
and to hope, in a time of despair.
Like the budding earth all around us,
may we open our inmost selves.
May our fears burn away like mist.
And may our souls unfurl their wings and fly.
Amen.
