It is a time of trembling emergence.

This is a term Tamira Cousett used in a podcast conversation with Shauna Janz this February: Elder Wisdom Why Now. When I heard it, my soul reverberated ‘yes’.

I believe this is the call of our time. To learn how to emerge, trembling, together. We are being asked to collectively weave something regenerative. I don’t believe the design is for us to know or direct, the invitation is to build the capacity to bravely show up and see what arises.

We can feel the fragility and uncertainty of our time. The sorrows of our world are many. We hear the cries of our past and future ancestors, our communities, our beautiful Mother Earth. We want to respond but “how?” seems to be the overwhelming question. “How do I respond?”

Just as you are. Together.

It is both galvanizing and safe to know that others are responding and they too feel wobbly but do it anyway.

We are being asked to untangle our medicine, our imaginations and our sense of belonging from the suffocating overculture of late-stage capitalist, imperialist, white supremacist patriarchy. It is time to see what we can create beyond what is falling apart. The soul is not defined by individual accomplishment, degrees or certifications, but reflected and amplified when we come together as our genuinely imperfect selves.

It is time to tend to one another. To the seen and unseen. To all our kin.

The work is unpolished and unrefined. The work takes guts and vulnerable gestures that only have meaning when they are offered for one another. We need to trust the things we don’t have names for.

The magic is what happens between us.

This takes a willingness to be present with ourselves and each other. It takes courage to show up with our fears, our grief, our doubts, our joys, our stories, our prayers, our bodies, our blunders, right where we are and offer them.

This is sacred work. This is soul work.

This is A Mighty Kindness.

If you want to find spaces and company for your trembling emergence, the holy chambers of The House of Belonging welcome and need you.

~Criss