My dear friend,
How are you? I hope this letter finds you well. Me? I have had my ups and downs and find myself thinking about Fragility.
Don’t worry, I’m fine. But, I do think how precarious good things can be and the fragility of the foundations on which good is built. I thought of this recently when I recently heard someone say that the peace in their country was “fragile”. Fragile peace.
I realized that, due to the nature of humanity, all peace is fragile with the presence of fear (so much fear), anger, ignorance, hurt/pain, all just teetering so close that a mere bump would send any of those things into fragile peace and shatter its fragile state. And yet, there is much enduring peace in our world too.
And then my heart takes me to the state of individuals and how fragile each of us as individuals is. And how very near to each are those things that teeter near each of us threatening our fragility; threatening to shatter our selves. The human condition is threatened by broken promises or judgments or the worst of all; the assertion that one is not human…and does not need to be treated as such…
And yet, I do not lose hope. Not at all. For I can’t consider this without the thoughts of the resilience of people. The healing that I have witnessed-often to my amazement! And the miracles of the gathering of shattered lives into a renewed sense of wholeness… and so my reflections lead me to hope within my own fragility that heals into strength.
So, until we meet again, let’s care for the fragility of one another.
Joyfully,
Tivesse
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