Last night I read a beautifully and honestly written blog entry on the site of my dear friend and colleague Sukie Curtis. Sukie was once an ordained Episcopal priest who has now withdrawn her vows so that she might speak and write more openly and without concern about the response of her "audience" (that is, her congregation). She has begun a blog site titled "Trusting Delight" (pun intended).

In this particular essay detailing her fears about the upcoming Presidential election, she tells about beating back fear with hope as its antidote, and how she tries to vividly imagine herself---how she will feel, what she will be doing, who she'll be with---at the moment her candidate-of-choice is declared as the 44th President of the United States. This got me to thinking. (It doesn't take much.)

The number 44 in the ancient school of numerology is considered a "master number." It means something roughly like this, "Of a person guided by this number, much will be asked." In this topsy turvy time in the global village, one can hardly disagree with that! The next man stepping into this role will be faced with unimaginably daunting challenges.

Sukie's fears, as I see it, are not only understandable but probably shared by most of us of voting age in this country at this time. Pondering what it means to suspend fear in a time when fear seems to be the dominant force in the collective unconscious, I remembered a few things.

Here is what I wrote as a response in Sukie's blog:

"Fear certainly does creep in on 'little cat's feet,' as the poet said of fog and anything that fogs up our spirits. Hope is really its only antidote, and you make that beautifully clear.

I find myself telling people of late, 'The bad news is that all bets are off. The old model has fallen, and the new has yet to become clear. The good news is that all bets are off. The old model has fallen!' We are the creators of that new model, and we bring that creation to reality by speaking our truths, voting our truths, and planting our feet on our own holy ground. Then we wait to see what emerges when we've all assembled and taken our places.

Years ago, I had a dream where at first tens, then many dozens, and then hundreds and thousands of people were pouring out of their homes, holding lit candles high and climbing a mountain until each person stood on the mountainside, and the mountainside was lit up by many hundreds of thousands of candles.

This is our time.

love to you,
Meredith."

And so it is. This is our time to speak truth, to vote truth, to write truth. It is the only way to heal the wounds of so many distortions and lies from our political leaders to us. We can't wait for the next President of the United States to prove himself a person we can trust. We must become a person others can trust and become that person NOW. When we have lit our candles and peopled the world with countless trustworthy women and men who will speak and vote our truths, even if we differ from one another, we have begun the creation of the new model...and the new world.

So it's time to stop pointing fingers of accusation or blame and simply start to become the kind of person we want in a world leader.

"If not me, then who? If not now, then when?"

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