let's talk about neighboring

Reader,

When someone neighbors you with mercy that defies logic—
without demand, without fanfare, without control—and then sticks with you for a leg of your journey even while you struggle to receive it, it changes you.

It rewrites your instincts.
It reawakens your desire to be a person who offers that same mercy to others.

And it does something else, too.

The opportunity to face our need—and learn how to receive mercy—matters more than we think.

Because if we can’t see our own need, we won’t be open to receiving it—
and without it, we either collapse under the weight of that unmet need...
or lose the chance to find ourselves in the collective human story.

To be clear, I don't think neighboring is about saving anyone.
It’s about seeing each other’s humanity –– which is possible only so far as we've learned to stop denying our own.

And you don’t have to look far to realize that the world desperately needs people who are connected to their own humanity and willing to see it in others—the stakes are too high not to.

I see rich examples of all of this in the Good Samaritan story .... perhaps there's enough there to spark a rebellion against division, authoritarianism, abuse and hatred in all its styles, sizes, and shape-shifting.

Which is why I want to explore this more with you.

So I’m hosting a roundtable conversation in 2 weeks, digging into all things neighboring—not as performative action or pity driven charity, but as a revolutionary reclamation of our humanity, on both sides of mercy.

Want in?

​
Reply with ‘Please won't you be my neighbor’ and I’ll send the details.

Let's talk about it,

Camille

​
​
​