Emerging from the Darkness

You've got to take it one possession at a time. - Julius Randle, 6'9" power forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves

Here are some highlights of the people and places we got to walk and stumble and celebrate and lament and process and weave and sit and grieve and hope and laugh with over this past month…

We celebrated the 40th birthday of our dear friend Erinn Fahey in Detroit.

Tommy took a quick trip to SoCal. He helped Chris Dollar facilitate a Lenten prayer walk on the Panhe trail in San Clemente. See this report from Tommy's substack!

                                          

Posting up with nephew Riley at the little league field.

We connected with friends Prashant and Monica who just moved from Detroit to Palo Alto, CA.

Lindsay attended a baby shower for Cait and Mike in Detroit (above)...and Tommy drove out to Ann Arbor for a conference called Islamophobia After Gaza (below). See this for his substack report. 

Our friend Nabil sent us this photo of his cousins in Lebanon who were murdered by Israeli bombs. Pray for the people of Lebanon, Palestine, Iran and everywhere else that u.s. empire seeks to destroy. 

This winter has felt long, and particularly harsh, in many literal and spiritual, personal and collective ways.

As we emerge from both the natural (and unnatural) darkness this winter has been witness to, it was good to welcome Spring (and celebrate Lindsay’s bday), alongside beloveds, at the Annual Stations of the Cross Good Friday Walk with St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (below)...

…a reminder to keep naming the places where u.s. empire keeps actively, brutally and systematically crucifying the earth and its people.

And to come together collectively to proclaim and act for a world where this evil death-dealing does not, and will not, have the final word.

In the spirit of March Madness, don't get overwhelmed. Just take it one possession at a time.

May it be so.