Center for New Creation

The myth of Thanksgiving doesn’t work, in part because it is not true.
So here is that for which I do not give thanks. And then that for which I do.
Real gratitude requires truth. It is an orientation, a way of life.

Hope is not something to feel. Hope is something that exists. And to find it, just go out and be part of it.

Obama’s rejection of KXL is both reason to celebrate and a call for deeper and broader opposition to the whole of the transportation network that brings dirty oil to and through our communities to market…In these next few weeks, with the UN Climate Conference in Paris approaching, the world will be focused on these things. Millions of people will be in the streets or active in their communities doing advocacy, education, communication, and more. It’s a great time to build a movement that is broader, deeper, more engaged, and now even more inspired.

We are caught between two increasingly extreme tensions – the deepening consciousness of the interconnectedness of the whole of the web of life and the awareness that we are shredding it perhaps beyond its ability to hold us any longer. We have to resolve this tension by moving toward one and away from the other. We cannot put off this decision any longer.