Calm in the Chaos: Reclaiming Rest, Love, and Joy in Justice Work
| How are you? Truly? When last did you get some bone-deep rest? Feel the deep love in the work you do? Feel a surge of joy or even just a tingle? Justice work can be draining. The urgency, constant demands, and crises. It’s easy to feel overwhelm, anxiety, fear, anger, grief. To lose focus. To feel exhausted yet unable to afford the ‘luxury’ of rest. This is part of the path. So too are rest, love and joy. They are not a detour; they are an essential part of the journey. For balance, for wellbeing, for the energy to keep showing up and doing the work. This month, we invite you to pause with us. Let’s rest; let’s ground ourselves in what sustains us from within whether that is community, faith, nature, creativity, movement, or a combination. Let’s remember the love that brought us to justice work and the joy it brings us because caring for our wellbeing is part of building wellbeing for all. by Irmin Durand Senior Fellow, WE in the World The Peace of Wild Things – by Wendell Berry |
One Meal, Many Stories, Shared Purpose |
| This reflection, originally shared by Benjamin Anderson on LinkedIn, is a powerful glimpse into what belonging looks like in practice. And that shared meals, stories, and laughter can be radical acts of healing and hope. Read his beautiful post below. “We gathered again for a #multicultural potluck meal in Hutchinson, Kansas, this time at the Dillon Nature Center. We represented medicine, food service, civil service, aging care, homemaking, and education. In a traditional sense, we may appear to be unlikely friends, with both rural and urban backgrounds and originating from countries all over the globe. We laughed and shared stories. We knew each other by first name, and social classes did not separate us. We ate each other’s food and took home each other’s leftovers, and we all celebrated the victory that one of us officially became a US citizen this past week. |
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