Do you recognize her. . . ?
I didn’t
so I’ll invite you to do what she invited me to do
(and it’s more than just READING ON)
LETTING MY HEART BREAK
. . .She was asked:
How do you reconcile the enormous privilege that you have with the acute suffering that so many people are experiencing right now?
and she answered:

It’s something I’ve pondered a lot. There’s no explanation how you get to be in this situation of privilege. There’s just none. But I spend a lot of my waking hours, when we’re not in a pandemic, traveling and meeting other people and doing what I call letting my heart break. I’ve worked in Mother Teresa’s home for the dying. I’ve slept on people’s farms in Africa. I do meditation every morning, and I’ve had days of tears thinking about people I know who’ve lost a loved one. It’s going to those places where your heart really hurts for everybody, not just your own sense of loss.And so I cry a lot, and then I come back and I say, “How do I take what that person shared with me and what I learned, and how do I plow that back into the work to try and make the world better, or to convince a global leader that they ought to give more money to malaria, or care about people getting a vaccine on the other side of the world, or care about a child not getting a proper education in certain cities in the United States?” I just try to constantly remember that it’s a privilege.  . .

WHO IS THIS MYSTERY WOMAN?

RECOGNIZE HER, yet?
Mrs. William Gates. . .
Melinda
I know, I know,
when you’re rich you can do anything
and you can do everything that you want
and you don’t have to ask anybody’s permission. . .
and when you’re poor
you can’t do anything
and you’re at the mercy of everybody
and always have to ask,
“is it OK if I do this?”
or worse:
“CAN I DO THIS?”

But the one thing that makes the richest of the rich
and the poorest of the poor
The Same;
The very one thing that everybody
has in common
that makes us equal
is we all have the capacity
to care
to love
to have compassion
to give
all of us
KNOW
whether or not we do or don’t
has nothing to do with what’s in our bank account
or in our pockets
or not. . .

So just what is it that you’re doing
not just all the time
not every day
but right now
that allows your heart to break. . . ?
What moves you
not so much to tears
but TO action. . . 
Do you dare ask,
“How do I take what a person shared with me and what I learned and how do I plow that back into the work to try and make the world better?”

Pssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssst:

You just can’t answer that question with
W O R D S
and it’s much too late for Silence
of (action) doing

Go ahead. . .
Let your heart break
For Some Thing
For Some One

Let your Heart
be smashed
Let your Heart
be shattered
Let your Heart
be splintered
and then
more importantly
let it be joined with the
smashed
shattered
splintered
h e a r t s
of Others

R I S K
FOR AN EVER
to have it
BEAT DIFFERENTLY
to show
Your Worth
as you give
Others,
T H E I R S