Facing The Dark Ahead

I’m not sure what I can write today.

I saw this coming back when I was a teenager in 1968. Something told me, at 13, that if I had children they would not live to old age; they would die prematurely.

And so I swore never to have children.

I lost both a husband and a fiance over that decision.

Today, I am grateful I stuck to my convictions.

All over America — watched in horror by her allies across the globe — there is rage, there is fear, there is desperation.

What I will tell you is this: start learning how you will live and act when it is all taken away. Privacy, marriage, rights, everything.

That’s what they are planning.

Decide how you will hold up a candle in the dark.

Because if you wait until it happens, it’s too late.

Be at peace if you die before the changes are made.

Be at peace with dying if you must because you are in the fight.

Be at peace saying goodbye to your friends as they escape the country, even if you cannot.

Learn to live with very little; the more simple your lifestyle, the less it will sting when it is no longer there.

Remember that this is only one incarnation; there have been and will be others.

If you are here now, it is because you have a part to play — either for others, or for your own soul’s growth.

Today is a day to look the Dark in the face and decide how you will walk with it, for as long as it takes.

This is not giving up. This is staring down the worst that they have planned, and saying that I will not succumb. I will not believe as you believe. And I will never, ever say that you are right to do what you are going to force on others.

And from the ashes, others will rise to a new day, even if I do not see that sunrise.