Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Today I wanted to talk about the source of courage, but it is a trick title.

See, this last week I had one of my usual regular scheduled calls with my Wayfinder coaches.

Now on this broadcast, it's just, it's a Facebook broadcast so I can get questions in the

text.

But because these people were Wayfinder coaches, they get to have Zoom interactions with me so I can actually go

back and forth and coach them a little. So there's somebody who's almost always

here on the gathering room. Donna, Donna Keel. I didn't say any names today and I

kind of miss it. Probably go back to that next week. Suggestion for the podcast.

Anyway, Donna asked a question about how to encounter,

she's getting really heightened awareness because of the Black Lives Matter movement,

and she wants social justice, and then she encounters people and institutions

that are really, really racist and sexist

and all those things.

And what she said was, you know, I need to get to the point where I can not be angry

and I can just move toward them with love and, you know, just nothing but gentleness in my heart and calm them.

Well, because I had a chance to talk back and forth with Donna, we located the place where she

starts to get angry. And at that point, a judgment comes in that says,

you must not act on anger.

Now, this is a very common theme in our culture.

It's a common theme among anyone whose anger might upset the system.

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