VA4, Ep. 4 Crumbs of Tenderness, if you have some, I need them all.

We start in the Peruvian Amazon, where a recent oil spill opened a story in which I learned of a particular child, Osman, who invaded my dreams and allows me to introduce the theme of Love in today’s episode. It becomes interwoven with the love that the original inhabitants of the Rainforest have for their sacred environment, contrasted with the exploitative attitude with which its wealth has been ransacked and destroyed. In destroying the Forest, we are betraying every child on this planet. Theirs is the legacy that we are looting, and they are counting on us to protect and care for their rightful future.

They are counting on crumbs of tenderness, but we owe them much more, a Big Love, which I invite us to celebrate this week, a Love that connects us to the Heart of Mercy that lies at the foundation of our shared bonds of compassion, that ability we possess to see the suffering of another and react in order to alleviate pain.

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