People Like Us Are Searching

People like us that are unwilling to continue like this are searching.

• • We are searching for new ways to solve old problems.
  • We are searching for answers to hard questions, especially the ones no one wants to ask.
  • We are searching for ways to heal ourselves and others.
  • We are searching for healthy, sustainable, daily habits, monthly rhythms, annual traditions.
  • We are searching for meaning, purpose, and call.
  • We are searching for peaceful ways forward amidst conflict.
  • We are searching for healthy alternatives to destruction, violence, and unnecessary suffering.
  • We are searching for others to join us in being the solution because going alone gets exhausting.
  • We are searching for truth that is not exclusionary, weaponized, and hurtful.
  • We are searching for community instead of isolation, vitality instead of exhaustion, hope instead of despair.
  • We are searching for renewal and redemption and restitution (and not expecting others to initiate them).
  • We are searching for expressions of generosity in a world of greed—and we’ll keep on giving of ourselves.
  • We are searching for others we can truly serve. Serve with our gifts, our craft, our thing.

And people like us are also searching inward.

• • We are searching ourselves for roots of greed, resentment, prejudice.
  • We are searching our own perspectives for blindness and ignorance and bias.
  • We are searching our own belief systems for exclusion and violence.
  • We are searching our own truth claims for a lack of openness and discovery.
  • We are searching our own religion for stagnancy and coldness.

People like us that are unwilling to continue in ways like this will continue to search.