Twelve Minutes that Change How I Think About Us
Bad Bunny took the Super Bowl halftime stage last Sunday.
He raised the flags of every nation in the Americas. He sang in Spanish to hundreds of millions of viewers world-wide. He made you lean in if you wanted to understand. And he used the biggest platform in America to say: we belong to each other. He redirected our attention
Which got me thinking about Ramadan.
Stay with me.
This month, more than a billion Muslims will begin fasting from sunrise to sunset. They'll interrupt their automatic patterns. They'll redirect their awareness toward the divine. They'll do this whether conditions are perfect or terrifying.
In Minneapolis right now, some Muslim families are preparing for Ramadan while navigating fear about immigration enforcement. Some mosques are expecting smaller gatherings. Some parents are trying to shield their children while also preparing them for what might happen.
And the practice continues anyway.
Ernest Holmes wrote something about this. About not deserting the truth in the hour of need. About how the supreme moment to demonstrate spiritual practice is when things look the worst.
Tomorrow I'm talking about what happens when you have to lean in to understand something unfamiliar. About what we learn when we watch people practice faith in the middle of fear. About how interrupting automatic patterns creates a gap where awareness can live.
About Bad Bunny, Ramadan, and what it means to belong.
Sunday, February 15
9 and 11 am
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