As we live in this time of the pandemic, with heartache over the many, many people around the world sick and suffering and passing on from this virus, so many emotions fill our hearts and spirits. Yet in the midst of it all, there is beauty and hope and transformation. An inspiring poem by retired Madison, Wisconsin, teacher Kitty O’Meara and the accompanying video so beautifully capture this promise and hope.
— Rev. Janice Kamikawa
In the Time of Pandemic
And the people stayed home.
And they read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.
And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.
Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
—Kitty O’Meara
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