For Aleppo, I Will Be Their Champion For Love
It is times like these that can and do frighten us, we weep, we worry, we walk, wander, lost, lonely and often afraid. Afraid for our children, afraid for their future, afraid for ours, afraid for our freedom, our society, our world in which we live, love, embrace and hold to dearly. Uncertain footing, creeping, cracking, chinking chips in our foundation, challenging our understanding, our knowing, our being.
We are wary, weary, seeing the delicate flaws, the fragility of our fellow man. We want and wait for security, for certainty, for a piece to a puzzle that’s not yet complete. We are stripped, bare, vulnerable, boundaries broken, beaten, berated, unravelling around us. Questions of how, questions of why, questions of what, what can we do? What will be done? What will come from this?
Within this heartbreak though we are given an opportunity to be bigger, to be bigger than fear and to be bigger than hate itself, to find and to show the compassion, the gentle, the humbled and the unequivocally resilient depths of human kindness. We, together are better than this.
For our children, in these times, they are confronted, their innocence tested, their minds open, learning, seeking, walk and tip toe along a thin line of influence, values and perception of who they are and how they treat others in the world. We as parents are at a precipice, the choices we make and the actions we take will inevitably shape the minds and the outcomes of our future journey together. Take this moment, take this chance and take this small passing opportunity to be their guide, be their role model, be their champion for love. It is a time for love. Show them what it is to love, to be open and to have understanding.
Give them grounding, strength and provide them with loving footsteps of peace for their smaller adventuring feet to follow in. You are their image for how we treat our fellow man and they look to us to see how to respond and feel in times of uncertainty. Anger breeds anger, hate breeds hate but love, in all it’s natural beauty, breeds love!
Be their guide, be their teacher, be their champion for love.
