for the Race (that's not a race)

for my fellow humans

as we find ourselves

at a crucial crossroads

of our culture

and country

as we rabidly

fearfully and worriedly

evade each other

to more fanatically

eviscerate each other

and we rashly

divide ourselves

by mystifying constrictions

and myopic convictions

and rush to decide

which versions of truth

hold more truthiness

than others

and we strain

to see beneath

the facades of factions

and the non-fictional

frenzies that fracture

the fabric

of our fellowship...

may we remember

that the cords

that connect us

are more primal

and pliable

and permanently permeable

than any petrifying

forces of paralyzing fear

that Love withstands

our warring and worrying

and transcends

our terrors

that tear us apart

and that we

are a part

of a Race

that is human

and Hallowed

tearfully and wonderfully

made of limitless Love

and boundless Grace

not a competition

for the swift

and strong

but a Communion

where strength emerges

through weakness

and Wisdom converges

with foolishness

where the goal

of the Journey

is not to win

but to walk

with each other

and to help

out each other

along the Way

and the destination

is a manifestation

of transformation

in the breathtaking beauty

of universal unity

in perpetual diversity

interdependently incarnating

One Beloved Community.

Amen.

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('One Race - Human' © Heather Alley)