From my counseling session today, some soothing words in turbulent times:

“It’s a really hard time to be alive. You are not imagining that.Yet, the old truths about Love are still true. Let us love one another, regardless of our historical moments.

Work with your hands, love people by name, try to truly be yourself, and honor others. And don’t be stingy with giving your gifts to others. Love reciprocates.

Then my counselor gave me a quote from the Jewish mystic and philosopher, Martin Buber:

I have no teaching, I facilitate a conversation. I point to something outside the window, and we talk about it until we both see one another and what’s outside better. That is through love’s lens.” Martin Buber

Quieter works—gardening, walking your dog at night, making art, just looking at the sky, for examples.
In times like these with the Wisdom of silence and quite art. Not escapist, not sentimental, not unaware, but quiter. A kind word. A gentle word has Love’s silence, implied. God is concerned, but not stressed. Inner Peace, comes before action.
What you do when alone, how you pet the cat or dog, how you watch birds in wonder, effects the whole. Infest people with kindness, gentleness, patience, good listening…..with all the fruits of The Spirit! Do that when alone, and then when with others.
Recognize one another’s names and stories as sacred. Wisdom moves slowly around things in Love to know them. Wisdom, is like a cubist painting that circles again and again until it knows what it loves, and enters exactly there.
Action without wisdom’s slow considering, will always be foolish. But it takes time to consider, before implementation. Take that time!”

Good counseling advice today!