Right? Who craves Skittles, and are they ok?

“We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford. A city where they can do more than just struggle.”

May it be the latest of ten thousand such garden cities, blossoming fruits of active peace.

May the morning break on refreshed hearts and steady hands.

And let us be the ones, like Zohran and Captain Picard, who make it so—not alone, never alone, but together in the great turning toward justice, toward mercy, toward the great chosen family of God’s Kin’dom being birthed, even now.

From the ashes of what was, something lush and living grows—the Viriditas of God’s greening, the fountain fullness of Spirit’s flow.

Alleluia. Ameen. Shalom and Salaam.

Inshallah. Let it be so.

"And a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism.”

But tonight’s victory is bigger than one election, one city, one moment. This is a kairos moment—a fullness of time when the ordinary becomes extraordinary, when the widow’s mite multiplies, when five loaves feed the multitudes

The empire says we must compete. The gospel says we must companion one another toward liberation.

In his primary election victory Zohran declared: “Last Tuesday, [our neighbors] spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future..."

May this victory ripple outward like the Spirit skipping across the waters of new creation, calling forth new ripples from the void.

The empire insists there is not enough. The prophets know abundance multiplies when we share.

And may the brighter angels of our becoming beckon billions in communities of embodied, tactile joy. This is what Martin Luther King Jr. meant by the “drum major instinct” transformed—not the desire to be first, but the calling to be first in love, first in moral excellence, first in generosity.

May we emerge in school boards and city councils, in neighborhood associations and mutual aid networks, in every place where people gather to ask: *What if we loved our neighbors as ourselves? What would change?”

May God protect him in the enormous work ahead.

May the Spirit inspire not just *one* Zohran, but thousands of Zohrans to rise up through the earth like seeds that have been buried in darkness, waiting for their season.

Before he was an assemblyman, he was a housing counselor preventing foreclosures, sitting with immigrant homeowners in Queens losing everything , bearing witness to the violence of extractive economy. He learned the housing crisis is not natural—it is a *choice*. And now, NYC has chosen differently.

Gandhi taught us to be the change we wish to see. Zohran’s campaign *embodied* this—not just promising a more affordable city, but *organizing* one into being, block by block, conversation by conversation, relationship by relationship.

This is what it means to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves, wielding power not for domination but for the flourishing of the least of these.

—that dance of solidarity between all people, where those who dream and those who toil are revealed to be one people. This is organizing that begins not with an enemy to defeat, but with Beloved Community to build.

"The wall that separates and divides will disappear and we will become one because the sound of the genuine makes the same music.”

And what a symphony they became! 10k+ volunteers, young and first-time voters mobilized not from a place of bitter self-interest, but from “faith-rooted organizing”

“If I hear the sound of the genuine in me, and if you hear the sound of the genuine in you, it is possible for me to go down in me and come up in you. So that when I look at myself through your eyes having made that pilgrimage, I see in me what you see in me..."

This victory sounds a fresh octave in the moral universe’s song of restorative justice. Zohran’s platform—fare-free buses, stabilized housing costs, city-owned grocery stores, universal childcare—echoes the conviction Howard Thurman whispered to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee:

Zohran Mamdani, at 34, defeated the old guard to become New York City’s mayor-elect and in doing so, thousands of everyday New Yorkers remembered that another world is not only possible—it is *inevitable* when we organize with faith and fierce love.