We Were Made For These Times

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“My friends, do not lose heart. 
We were made for these times... 
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. 
Do not focus on that. 
There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. 
Do not focus there. 
That is spending the wind without raising the sails. 
 We are needed, that is all we can know. 
And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. 
Didn't you say you were a believer? 
Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? 
Didn't you ask for grace? 
Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater? 
 Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. 
Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. 
It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. 
 What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. 
We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale."

by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Taken from a post in to
 Standing Rock Protectors - Pipeline Protest