I hope you have a source of grace.

Grace offers us hope but doesn’t shy away from truth.  If a yellow world outlook makes it possible for us to grow through good moments and bad then grace is yellow.

Grace makes it possible for new connections to be made, our sense of being to develop, and offers encouragement to begin again.

We all need grace: we need it from others and we especially need it from ourselves.

As far as we know, we are the only species on Earth with such a high level of mindfulness or consciousness.  As designers and shapers of life – our own life first (and then we try to shape the lives of others) –  this can all be too much.  We can try and control this unfathomable ability to create by “sticking rather than twisting.”  I have caught myself using the language of delegation and even abdication when it comes to decisions I make.  I had to do this, I had no other option, when I couldn’t face saying, I chose to do this.

Bruce Hood points out our very Human tendency to ‘fear losses greater than we welcome gains.’  We’d rather stay where we are but Erich Fromm provides the dilemma of this in that which will not leave us alone: ‘there is no limit to the knowledge of oneself.’

Alex McManus embraces the Human desire to journey into space, but wonders about the kind of Humanity we’ll be exporting,* questioning whether landing Humans on Mars by 2026 (the aim of Elon Musk) will be easier than ‘the quest to make humanity human.’

I think we’ll need to both find and share a lot of grace as we confront the truths of who we are and seek to overcome the voices of criticism, judgement and fear.**

I read again this phrase from Nassim Taleb which seems to fit today with our need for grace in a yellow world:

‘I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.’

We can explore through grace.

(*We have not got a great track record in caring for each other, our planet, and even ourselves.)
(**I’ve borrowed these three voices from Otto Scharmer’s Theory U – another exploration of becoming more Human which understands there will be voices which would stop us opening our minds, our hearts, and our wills.)
(^My friend Charlotte sent me this vidlink which connects with today’s thoughts.)