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APRIL 2022 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 2

FRACTURE AND HEALING

by Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares

In this seemingly never ending season of id run unrestrained, and allow our anger and
calamities and disasters, it is tempting to want despair to get the upper hand. It does indeed
to throw in the proverbial towel. To give up, feel like we, and the world, are going out of
and give in to our worst impulses. To let our control, particularly as we witness powerful and
dangerous emotions run wild: on the
world stage, behind the wheels on our
highways, in encounters with strangers
who for some reason we hold (or who
hold us) accountable for our collective
despair, and in far too many other ways to
count. Many end up picking scapegoats,
and tribalizing, i.e. looking to refuge
within ethnic, religious, and many other
kinds of quadres. In short, it appears we
have given in to rage and frustration,
and are girded for battle at any and
all moments, with yells and screams
everywhere.

But it doesn’t stop there, as our external
outbursts are very much preceded and
then mirrored by our internal turmoil,
those now too frequent moments of
quiet loneliness and sadness, tears and
heartbreak. Where we find ourselves
bemoaning the seeming lack of ultimate
meaning, and can’t easily find it
somehow. Our hearts shatter, and our
longing and melancholy increase.

So we holler to the sky, to the Universe,
and to God. What are we to do?

And laments follow: I need help. Please.
I need help.
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