Wishcasting Wednesday

image from Jamie's post

What do you wish for the world?

The short answer: more love.

Maybe it’s because yesterday I wrote a post about it, or because I took vows this weekend and have been thinking about how to manifest and embody them, that I keep coming back to love being the answer to every question, the fix for every problem.

More love would:
Feed the hungry.
Feed the hungers that have nothing to do with food.
Quell aggression.
Stop the fighting.
Stop war.
Spread peace.
Heal the global economy.
Lead to a clean, stable, strong environment.
Protect the environment.
Lessen our dependance on a legal system based on laws, punishment, and imprisonment.
Uncover our natural morality and ethical behavior, which doesn’t need a system or authority to tell us what is right, but rather connects to our inherent and shared wisdom and compassion.
Allow for difference, for diversity, generate love and protection for it.
End racism.
Bring about equal rights, for all.
Lead to better, more meaningful education.
Help doctors better understand how to prevent, treat, and heal illness, dis-ease.
Lead to better overall health and wellness.
Mean that everyone had a home, a family.
Recognize that all sentient beings deserve respect, care, love.
Bring joy and contentment.
Make us more mindful.
Shift our perspective to one of wisdom and kindness.
Cause us to slow down and notice, rest.
Generate gratitude and grace.
Provide comfort.
Mend broken hearts.
Break closed hearts wide open, letting in the light.
Free our innate wisdom.
Help us realize our basic goodness.
Enable an enlightened society.
Help us let go of our attachments.
Dissolve ego.
Bring an end to suffering.

So that’s my single wish for the world: more love.

For you, for me, for all of us, all of it: more love.

What do you wish to attract?

:: Love and friendship, compassion and wisdom. I want to be surrounded by people who are smart, funny, brave, and kind. Support and companionship.

:: Inspiration and magic, connection to grace. I feel this sometimes when I work, an idea or memory surfaces at exactly the right time and I feel connected to a bigger purpose, understand that I’m not alone.

:: Ease and presence, reminders to slow down and notice. A sunrise, the full moon, a Heron flying low over the length of the river, the sigh of one of my dogs, my husband’s laughter–waking me up and anchoring me to the present moment.

:: A community of readers. This blog isn’t a performance, it’s me sharing my life, but the reality is that if I hope to someday be paid for my art, I need an audience. Underneath that wish is the simple desire to be heard and seen, for acceptance and love.

Update: I can’t believe I forgot to include this, but I also wish that among this community of readers, I also attract a kind and generous publisher, someone who says as my friend once did “I want to read everything you ever write” and is skillful and successful at what they do, who believes in my work wholeheartedly, is wise and brave, and helps me to share my work with the world.

:: The sense of “yes” and “enough,” that fills me with light and helps me release my grasp, relax my grip, let go of poverty mentality. It whispers in my ear that I am on the right path and I am enough, encourages me to be brave and keep going.