ARM YOURSELVES WITH LOVE ALONE
No, we will not all survive this. Some lives have already been lost. Many more are at risk of losing health care, being “disappeared”, met with violence, or starvation. These risks are already at play. No, not everyone will be okay. That is a baseline we may have to accept.
Practicing some level of acceptance allows us to concentrate our power and creativity on resisting what we refuse to accept, the places where we must have courage to change what we can.
¡Resistance is never futile! Those who can only imagine creating a world by force will always be conquered eventually, sometime hoisted by their own petard, but they will always crumble. The more tyrannical and ignorant the despot, the harder they fall. The less they know of love the quicker they become dust.
But the virtue and resilience of those who know to endure with integrity, even if it costs them their life, will sow the seeds of a beautiful future, a beloved community where character, insight, and wisdom matter.
There have been peaceful, thriving communities throughout history that have furthered the evolution of the human race as God has desired and empowered us to do.
We cannot guarantee what will happen to our own fate when tiny men driven by fear and inadequacy seize power.
We can trust what their fate will be.
And we can shape the fate of the world to come.
For no tyrant will determine history. No coward controls our fate as the human race.
There is no greater power than love.
There is no greater power than love.
And those who rely on any other power to make their mark on history
Will be forgotten and eclipsed by the courageous and powerful love we carry in our bodies at all times.
In my tradition, the resurrection tells us no one can override God’s judgment and no one can kill God. God is love, and so no one can kill the love within you. Even if your body disappears.
Don’t poison yourself with the power of violence they fetishize, the violence on which their hopes rely. Instead, arm yourselves with love alone, start now, and you will be crafting the future of the human race.
Only love remains. Remains.
From Resisting Arrest.
. Douglas Harrison
