On a morning in which I was sleep deprived and feeling so much despair, Barbara Kingsolver’s post about truth and love on Instagram comforted me. I’m sharing her words with you. I hope that they help all of us in some small way.
I don’t think that Barbara will mind that I am borrowing her words today.
Barbara posted a photo of an eclipse with her sentiments. I’m sharing a photo of a solar prominence taken during last April’s solar eclipse.
Here is Barbara’s message:
“Truth and love have been smacked down, so many more times in history before today. Truth, because it’s often inconvenient, and love because it is vulnerable.
But truth is like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse: it’s still there. And love stays alive if you tend it like a flame. If you feel crushed by unkindness today, it’s a time for grieving, reaching out to loved ones, noticing one bright color somewhere in the day. Remembering what there is to love. Starting with the immediate, the place and people we can tend ourselves, and make safe. We can’t save everything all at once, but it’s still worth saving something. Because there are so many of us to do it.
And we are all still here today, exactly as we were yesterday. Like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse.