Now More Than Ever

Sanctuary Dispatch | Friday Reflections from the Wild Path

The Soft Rebellion

Children should not fear their classrooms.

Teachers should not carry both lesson plans and exit strategies.

Parents should not wonder if goodbye at the door might be the last.

And yet, this is the world we are living in.

Now more than ever is a time to come together.

Worshippers should not fear sanctuaries.

No one should bow their head in prayer while wondering if they’ll rise again.

Faith should be a refuge, not a target.

But violence has found its way into sacred spaces.

Now more than ever is a time to come together.

Voices should not be silenced with bullets.

Even when we disagree, words must be allowed to live.

When one voice is lost, the whole chorus weakens.

What happens to one happens to us all.

Now more than ever is a time to come together.

We’ve been taught to shrink into our bubbles.

Keep your family safe. Protect your own.

Pretend that safety for one is enough.

But the fracture spreads.

The wound belongs to the whole.

Now more than ever is a time to come together.

We began in circles. In tribes.

In the knowledge that survival meant belonging to one another—food shared, grief carried, children raised, prayers spoken side by side.

And maybe—just maybe—that is where we are headed again.

The Age of Aquarius. The dream of New Earth.

The remembering that your liberation is mine, and mine is yours.

The bubbles are breaking.

The old story is collapsing.

And a new way waits to be born.

Now more than ever is a time to come together.

Sanctuary Dispatch

Friday Reflections from the Wild Path

This is where the personal meets the political, and care becomes a form of resistance.

Each dispatch is part of The Soft Rebellion—a movement rooted in clear seeing, collective care, and the courage to act.

These reflections rise from the ground we stand on, and ripple through The Soft Rebellion: Local Chapter in Metro Northwest Massachusetts.

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