More and more the message coming from my gods and guides is this: As long as most humans hate themselves they will not stop hurting and killing – each other, the earth, themselves one way or another. Salvation comes only from love and that must include love for self and love for humanity. The culture in which we live tells us to mute this cry with anything that offers to dull our senses. And by and large, we humans do. But things are reaching a critical mass and it is time to wake up. We must find a way to love ourselves, each other, and our species not through avoidance but through connection. Wake up. Do this work. Save the world.

I read today about a campaign and documentary called Every Mother Matters. I want to live in a world where this is so ingrained in us, where we hold in our bodies that every mother matters, that we would never think to create a slogan. For if every mother matters, so does every child and every father.  If we that’s where we are – that we need to be reminded mothers and healthy mothering matter – then let’s start there.

But the truth and the beauty is this. For every problem we have created in our pain and our ignorance, someone holds the love in their heart and the fire in their belly and the ingenuity in their brain to plant the seeds of solution. We do not have to each reach out to solve everything. We must instead start with love, love for ourselves, for the planet that sustains us, for the people in our lives, for the person or need that can receive what we have to offer and show us a way back to loving ourselves. Start where you are. Save the world.