Q. Or do I just rest and ride it out like a leaf?

A. Riding it out like a leaf and resting are both very good skills to have. The world is a better place when you use those skills actively. They are not as passive as you might think. There is power in going with the flow. There is power in knowing when to relax and be soft. Even in the midst of violence, there is power in sinking to the earth, becoming heavy in the refusal to be moved.

Really what we are trying to say is that in these times everything is up and available to be healed. The injustices of your political system and social system and all the systems that have made up the human realm where you live are being exposed now. It is like meeting a thicket of thorns. Put on the leather gloves, there are people crying in there, and they need your help.

You are not expected to plow through the thorns naked to free them. In fact that would be a very bad way to go. It would take so much longer to get there and you would end up weeping and bleeding in their arms. And you would not be able to clear a useful path. So take your time and find your way through, by means of your gifts and skills and wakefulness, call in the others to help, and someday you will have laid bare the bones of the garden that was choking in the tangles, and you will have set each other free and brought each other into the light where you may dance and rest and feed each other on the fruits of your labors.