Marriage Equality in NY

And in all the celebration and joy, I nearly forgot that hate itself was not conquered, just quieted, in this place, so that loving became the louder sound.

But I know that elsewhere love still speaks quietly in dark places, I know that even in NY, hate can be loud as gunshots sometimes.

But we will celebrate, because love is powerful, and it overcame something so big I didn't think I would ever be able to see around it.  So we celebrate. And we speak our pronouncements (I now pronounce you..) like incantations against the space/time when they could not be spoken. Or like little prayers to protect a small, sacred thing,. "I now pronounce you...." Like the way a new mother pronounces her baby's name for the first time. "Wife and Wife." "Husband and Husband."  Amen.

I believe in love. I believe in love the way I believe in air, a soft thing I can't always sense, but a necessary thing without which there is just empty space between separate beings. I need love to connect it all, to be the fascia of the divine body, the substance that allows commerce between us. I believe that love must be there, at the bottom of everything, between two people, any two people, when the eyes are open and clear enough, I believe there must be love. Love being a kind of subtle recognition of a common thing. There must be that recognition. And dear God, let there be a common thing to recognize. There must be a unifying love. Or else I don't know anything at all.

Sometimes, when I hear old hate in this new time, it makes me feel like I don't know anything at all. How can you argue a simple thing? How can you explain that your body is fiber and marrow enough to be called a human body and that your spirit is full of God enough to love the God unfurled on your bedsheets? 

I believe in love. I believe in celebrating love, after a long fight for love. And I know it is not over, not until our love is no longer a controversial thing. Not until our equality is a simple truth rather than a political stance. When our love can just be love, then we can fully lay down our sword and shield. But what has happened means something.

There used to be a mountain here.
In this place, in this time, we have worn it down.

So let's enjoy the soft sand we have made.