Rising Above Human Cruelty: Love, Joy & Spiritual Resistance

Wednesday, 28 January 2026 Written by Nancy Leilah Ward Views: 18060

Finding love, peace, and joy amidst the turbulence of human cruelty and collective suffering. ~AndEl

Emotional Turbulence at the Start of the Year

Just a few weeks into the new year and feeling emotionally battered and speechless. What a year this month has been. I haven't been able to write. Emotions and observations haven’t distilled into words because of the barrage of horrific events that began just a few days into the new year. One horror after another.

Energetically, it’s like the boat I’m on is going way too fast as each Big Thing that happens gets left behind in the churning wake as more Big Things emerge and pass. But none of it actually passes. The boat is laden with the heaviness of human cruelty. As I write this, I feel myself lifting out of the boat and I’m flying above, still tracking the boat but able to see the lay of the land. The beauty of nature persists, birds are flying, the sun rises and sets, the trees stand sentinel, rooted and reaching, I am breathing and in my little place in the world I can find peace. I feel gratitude, I breathe love into my being, I gather love into my body, my energy field and I send it out into the place on earth that is uppermost in my mind. To the people of Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul. To the family of Renee, to the little boy in the blue hat and all the others who are being abused at the hand of those who decide such things and those who implement such things.

Witnessing and Transmuting Collective Pain

And here I am – a week later from when I started this essay, before I could finish editing and polishing it, and more Big Horrible events have taken place. Another murder has amplified grief and outrage and each terrible thing that happens sends me into scrolling and looking for more information as deep inside I know I need to step away, but I can’t. I can’t stop looking, feeling into it all, doing what I can to send peace into the situations, to send comfort and loving energy to the family and friends of Renee and Alex, and all the others who have been killed by the frozen hearted, and to all the peaceful protesters who are helping those in their communities. Whenever I think of them, I surround the little boy Liam and his father in a bubble of light, comfort and protection and that opens me to realizing there are so many people who are in cages with them, who need this energy and so I expand it and send it outward and try not to let it overwhelm me. I realize as I write this that, as a frequency holder, transmuter and transmitter of energy, it is my job to look into what is going on. But I need to regulate myself, to step away, to connect with my soul, to find stability and peace in order to renew my energy.

The people orchestrating this nightmare are gleeful, cruel and arrogant. As are those who are cheering them on. Their actions shock my mind, break my heart and leave me wordless. It is unfathomable to me how people can be this way, to point a gun at someone’s head and shoot them as if they aren’t real, actual human beings. As if they think they’re playing a video game.

This feels like we are in a loop of very old energy that has played out in different timelines on earth. Over and over again, as if the deck of good and evil just gets reshuffled and repeated. Cruelty over innocence, greed over compassion. We need to spiral up and out of this endless loop of human trauma. In the fluidity of time, we’ve been stuck in an eddy – out of the flow of the mainstream, spinning endlessly around and around in the same old trauma. I see a spiral of light rising from the swirling vortex, spiraling upwards and sparkling onto a different flow of time, on a current of creative expression, energized by love, curiosity, joy. Moving up and out of the looping trauma vortex.

The Power of Love, Joy, and Vision

I have a vision of a very loving being, a being who radiates the highest form of love, looking deeply into the eyes of the ones who are orchestrating and carrying out the current oppression we are witnessing – the ones who get off on having power over others. This being is gently holding their heads and gazing deeply into their eyes with pure love, penetrating into the truth of their souls and asking, “Who are you? What are you doing?” And the people are squirming because they cannot bear being so completely seen. They cannot bear seeing so deeply within their own wounded souls. Or perhaps they don’t even see the one holding them, for a wall of arrogance surrounds them. Maybe one or two of them begin to weep, as the love trickles into their wounded hearts. I imagine this being of love doing this whenever the cruel ones come into my mind.

However, I must confess that I also find myself imagining I’m slapping them over and over again when some new atrocity gets leashed into the world. I’m talking about the ones whose faces we see in the news, the ones orchestrating cruelty and power over others. The rage is real. And rage is a force of energy backed by love. But I can’t live with constant rage in my heart, so I give my vision over to the gaze of the loving being. In spite of this all, there is a great wave of love and higher vibrating energy flowing through the Earth plane. And we can choose to ride this wave of love. This energetic is actually highlighting all of the cruelty, bringing it up into the light and it is being released, moment by moment as we bear witness. This is NOT forever.

My word for this year is joy. What a contrast to what is happening, but JOY keeps coming up for me. On New Years Day I was contemplating joy and how it shows up in small ways, like seeing sunlight sparkling on water, watching the ravens fly and call out in their throaty voices, or the antics of my cats and dogs, like how Dave the dog goes ripping past me on the trail, ears flapping, when just a few minutes before I had to cajole him off his pillow to go outside for a walk. The smile of a stranger, a small, funny interaction with someone on the supermarket line. Little moments that spark a light of mirth in my heart and leave me uplifted in the afterglow.

As this year began and events started barraging my awareness, it’s been like trying to dodge boulders while in a raft. I feel it’s going to be this way for a while. The current is fast and furious and so it is imperative to find moments of stillness during the day. To stop, sit, breathe, go outside and stand among the trees, or envision ourselves being somewhere in nature, if we can’t physically be there.

I find refuge in painting, (although it seems to be challenging to begin a painting these days - deer in the headlights syndrome), as well as knitting. I recently purchased a book by one of the G.O.A.T knitters and pattern designers and have found it relaxing and comforting to read bits from this book with my morning coffee.

I am dedicating moments in every day to find the flow of love and joy, because as I make this connection and radiate love outward, I feel into the flow of our collective consciousness and link up with many others who are doing the same and in this way, we help to raise the frequency of love that is establishing itself on Earth at this time. Let us connect in the inner realm and rise together in the strength of unity and love.

Joy is resistance.

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