Thank You Very Sweet

I visited a friend in the hospital last week who was hit by a car. He was on his bike and so pretty badly injured. I think I was trying to explain it, to explain all of the strange things that’d been happening lately: car accidents, friendships ending, the curious circumstances surrounding John Boehner’s retirement. “I feel there’s a rebalancing afoot in the universe,” I said, “a rebalancing of masculine and feminine energies…”

“What does that mean,” my friend asked.

I didn’t know, so we googled it.

masculine energy has to do with self esteem. How we feel about ourselves, the rights that we feel entitled to. Feminine energy has to do with how we feel about others, our ability to see others and allow them to be who and where they are. Ideally these energies are balanced in each individual. And in society.  People governing themselves with self respect, and also respecting others.

I’m not sure that I answered anything, but it did make me think about that thing that Jesus said: love thy neighbor as thyself.

Maybe these occurrences are to remind us?