SL01-014 From Emergency to Emerge and See

Three weeks ago, on February 15, 2019, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency along our southern border to get the funding for his border wall.  It seems like there are numerous other emergencies facing this country that are greater than the crisis down at our southern border with Mexico and the thousands of refugees and immigrants seeking to enter the United States in pursuit of the American Dream.   It is time that we emerge from our our privileged life, our comfortable life, our protected and sheltered life and see the real emergencies facing our country today:   the opioid crisis climate change US veteran suicide young adult suicide the fading American dream   Please join me in this imaginal prayer exercise as we seek illumination on emerging from our darkness and seeing the true emergencies, the true great needs around us and being guided by Christ on how best to respond and offer ourselves in service to being present to those in need and experiencing a greater emergency than the declaration made by our president for the border wall simply to circumvent Congress and the appropriations process.