During this crucial time love stands as a motivator for repair as we navigate this path the country has chosen to walk. Many are feeling a sense of fracture and dissonance, while others are buoyed by hope or relief. These waves of response ripple through communities, families, and friendships. Our call to love…to listening… to repair…becomes more important now.
I feel as though our country has chosen short term wealth over its people’s future. I am heartbroken. However, I have chosen to see love as the foundation for my future actions; repair now becomes an act of commitment. I embrace love as an active force that seeks to mend, restore, and reconcile. When faced with disagreement or uncertainty, love asks me to remember our interconnectedness, and the simple truth that what affects one, affects all.
The United States’ history is filled with moments where division has pulled at the seams, yet there are always those willing to step forward and sew them back together. Today, love calls on me to embrace that role, to tend to the wounds of my friends, my family and my community. It’s a love that seeks to understand rather than to blame, to listen rather than to overpower, to heal rather than to harm. This is the love that motivates repair—to create a space where people feel heard, valued, and supported, even when our perspectives diverge.
At this moment, we may ask ourselves; “what does repair looks like?” Is it a willingness to engage in difficult conversations with compassion? Maybe it’s extending grace to those with whom we disagree or finding common ground amidst political differences, or is it recognizing the gaps in our society—racial, economic, ideological—and committing to understanding them, with equity, and with kindness.
It is all this and more.
Love doesn’t ask us to deny our differences but to approach them with humility and empathy. When we allow love to motivate our repair, we become part of something larger; a collective movement toward healing, resilience, and hope. We can walk with open hands and hearts, knowing that love is powerful enough to carry us through, to rebuild what has been strained, and to keep us anchored in our shared commitment to the betterment of all.
~Candice Carver
