In this time of collective mourning, Rev. Patrick asks, "How do we look at the world? How do we filter the events that come before us? What do we do with our cracked-open heart?"
We know that there is no private good. Likewise, there is no private sorrow. We all share in the experience.
The trouble with steeling ourselves against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures our life against being destroyed secures our life also from being opened up and transformed.
The path to our healing takes the form of surrender---surrender to the Divine Presence, to the One.
