In a time of deep uncertainty, old strategies no longer work. This reflection explores why integrity, love, and values - not calculation - are what guide us when the game keeps changing.
We are not living in politics as usual … or life as usual. The old instructions no longer work.
In this uncertain time our instinct is often to calculate: How will this play out? What’s the smartest move? What protects my position, my people, and my future? But those calculations are built on assumptions that no longer hold. The game board has been overturned and trying to play by yesterday’s rules will only leave us disoriented and disconnected.
Let’s step out of that old game entirely. Instead of strategy rooted in fear or self-preservation, find something far more enduring: our own integrity, our deepest values, and our connection to something greater than ourselves.
From that place, something new becomes possible. Community forms where it didn’t exist before. Imagination widens. A future oriented toward the highest good of all – not just the few – begins to take shape.
We don’t know the principles guiding this emerging world yet. But we can choose what shapes it. Love for ourselves. Love for others. Love for the infinite mystery beyond our understanding.
In uncertain times, that may be the most faithful, creative, and world-making choice we have.
A way to grow more love.
Joni Miller, Ph.D., is a writer, researcher, spiritual coach, and speaker who uses her knowledge, education, and love of all things spiritual to help spiritual wanderers find a place they can call home, navigating by the light of Love. www.SpiritualGeography.net
