August 5, 2020 – The Prayer Chest
Meditation on Revolutionary Love
VALARIE KAUR
Love is a form of sweet labor, fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life giving, a choice we make over and over again. Love can be taught, modeled, and practiced. It engages all our emotions.
Joy is the gift of love
Grief is the price of love
Anger protects that which is loved
And when we think we have reached our limit, wonder is the act that returns us to love.
Revolutionary love is the choice to enter into love for others, for our opponents and for ourselves in order to transform the world around us.
Valarie Kaur – See No Stranger, 2020.
Valarie Kaur is a renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer. Her book is an amazing memoir of huge challenges and great resilience. She is one of the organizers of the Revolutionary Love Project (revolutionaryloveproject.com), a national interfaith movement to use many strategies, practices, and media to create social change through love.
“May we be brave in our grief. May we be brave with our lives. May we be good ancestors one day”
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