{"id":1227,"date":"2019-05-09T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:28:54","slug":"waiting-for-godde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/waiting-for-godde\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Godde"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m no Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) <\/em>and would never pretend to be but I feel\u00a0<\/em>like I’m\u00a0in the middle of his play only it’s happening in real life. I’m in that \u00a0in-between-place, having conversations of the meaning of our current reality and \u00a0waiting for Godde ,who never seems to show up.<\/p>\n

When Trump was first elected the mantra was we mustn’t become inured to the absurdities and atrocities- of language, attitudes, and policies. We must not let it become the ‘new normal.’ Somewhere along the line I had to detach enough to keep my sanity and to keep from sinking into the depressive, palpable miasma of every day news. All this in spite of the fact that I am involved in activism from fighting voter suppression, working on the campaigns of good candidates, writing letters, making phone calls, marching… and struggling not to burn out from all those absolutely important activities.<\/p>\n

But the train is bearing down and we are in a struggle for the track switch. \u00a0\"\"<\/a> \u00a0Whoever controls it will determine \u00a0the outcome that \u00a0will define for generations who were are now and the legacy we leave behind. Will we continue to do the flawed and messy work of expanding freedom and justice? Or will fear and ignorance transform us into yet another authoritarian travesty? Will we make room for our glorious bouquet of differences or will we become absurdly invested in a kind of sameness that destroys our humanity?<\/p>\n

These are questions I ask myself every day. And sometimes I wonder, where is Godde in the midst of this? \u00a0I am not the first to ask nor will I be the last. In prayer and even when I cannot pray my answer comes. Godde shares our desire for justice, walks with us in our fears, and shares our grief and anger.<\/p>\n

And I know this, too: I know that I and we are Godde embodied in the world. \u00a0My arms and hands and legs, your arms and hands and legs are Godde’s. A miracle isn’t going to drop out of the sky. I am the miracle. You are the miracle. We are the miracle. We will find a way to pull the switch that will change the tracks.
\nAnd even if we cannot throw the switch in time, hate and fear are never the final word. The Christian story tells it this way: death, itself, does not have the final word.
\nLove is the final word.<\/p>\n

Waiting for Godde means waiting for myself and each other.
\nWaiting for Godde means showing up as the embodiment of Godde.
\nWaiting for Godde means acting\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Love and justice.
\nWaiting for Godde means speaking truth to power.
\nWaiting for Godde \u00a0means living our truth without fear, \u00a0that Love is the first word and the last word. \u00a0
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I’m no Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) and would never pretend to be but I feel\u00a0like I’m\u00a0in the middle of his play only it’s happening in real life. I’m in that \u00a0in-between-place, having conversations of the meaning of our current reality and \u00a0waiting for Godde ,who never seems to show up. When Trump was first … Continue reading Waiting for Godde<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,39,13,21,23,25,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}