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Revolutionary Love: Love for Ourselves – Transition

  • Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ 5150 SW Watson Ave Beaverton, OR, 97005 (map)

There is a time during labor when you need to push – push through inertia, difficult sensations, thoughts and emotions. Pushing requires that we discern the right times to breathe and rest and the right times to push. To push as a practice of revolutionary love is to choose to engage our grief, rage, or trauma in order to create new possibilities in ourselves and others. Transition is the third practice of Love for ourselves. It is both a noun and a verb and the stage of transition can be a fiery, painful process that moves us from one reality into another. As part of the practice of Revolutionary Love, to transition is to summon the courage to stay in labors of love and justice, even when we feel we can’t and to draw upon collective wisdom to create or birth something new together.