Enraged By What’s Happening on the Border? Don’t Lose Faith In Goodness.

My 4-year-old son shuffled into the kitchen at 5:53 this morning and tried to talk me into milk and cookies for breakfast. It was all I could do to not bake him a whole batch of double chocolate chip on the spot.  Because today, I want to hold him close and never let him go.

Today, I’m more aware than ever of the treasures that surround me, and I want to be sublimely happy. But today, I also see people who have so much taking everything from people who have so little. People who want the very same things that all of us want in life: peace, safety, freedom, happiness.  

Today, I look at what’s happening in my own country, at the families separated at our border, and I wonder how there could be so much fear? And hate? And dishonesty? 

How can we turn against ourselves still? Time and time again, we’ve seen where this will lead us.

Today, my heart will not stop screaming. I am ENRAGED.

But you know what?  I have to believe in something. Maybe especially today.

I have to believe in hope.

I have to believe in good citizens, everyday heroes, the helpers and the healers.

I have to believe that our beautiful hearts can make things better.  

I look at my life today, and I see abundance. So many people in this world would view even a fraction of what I have as unimaginable riches, and I’m just an ordinary person. I have to believe that the peace and love and many blessings in my life are meant to be used for goodness. They are meant to be spread. We don’t lose anything by sharing the goodness with others.

If you’re enraged by what’s happening at the U.S. border today do not numb out. But don’t lose hope, either. Hold on to the light no matter how much the darkness tells you to let it go. Take good care of your beautiful heart and look for the possibilities for goodness.

If you have the freedom to speak, then speak. Speak for the people who have no voice today.

If you have love in you yet, then love. Love for the people who are frightened and hurting today.

If you have light in you, then shine. Shine for the people who need a lighthouse today.

If you can stand, then stand taller. Stand for the people who have been pushed down today.

If you have the resources, then share. Share with the people who have nothing today.

And if right now it’s all you can do to get through this day, do whatever you can to keep going. Give with your heart. Lead with your heart. Speak with your heart. Hope with your heart. And keep moving toward that sunrise on the horizon.

I know that in the dark, the world looks like a scary place. In the dark, it can look like we’ve lost our way. Still, I have to believe that light leads us home.  

Love pulls us together and through.

Please do not lose faith in our goodness and do your good work today.  

If you want to help the families separated at the border, donate to your voice, your time, your money, or your experience to organizations providing humanitarian and legal aid to migrant families like:

Pueblo Sin Fronteras, serving migrants in the Sonoran Desert.

Border Angels, providing water, legal assistance, and rescue services.

RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services), the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas.

RAICES Legal Representation, Education, and Advocacy Fund (LEAF), providing unaccompanied children with legal representation.

RAICES Family Reunification and Bond Fund, helping parents separated from their children pay bonds and be reunited with their families.

Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), represent unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in their deportation proceedings.

Or join a Families Belong Together rally in your area on June 30th.

Together, we can spread what is good so that all beings may find peace.

Author: Leslie Ralph 

Image: Author’s own.

About the author:  

Leslie Ralph is a psychologist, writer, and artist who hopes to leave the world a little brighter than she found it. Her people are creative, sensitive spirits who crave love and peace, inside and out. She helps them take good care of their hearts because those beautiful hearts will change this world. Leslie is the author of There, I Might Find Peace: Poetry and Prose, Mantras and Meditations for Peace, Love, and Strength. Download her free gift, a ritual for receiving, a daily ritual for bringing more love and light, clarity and confidence, meaning and connection to your life.

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