Changes! Changes!
When my oldest son was 7 or 8 years old he was uncharacteristically irritable and cranky one day. I asked him what was wrong and he said to me, "Changes, changes. Too many changes, Mom. I can't stand it!" I asked him what changes he was referring to and he said, "You painted the front door red and bought me new pajamas!"
At the time I didn't take it nearly as seriously as I maybe should have done. I think he was referring to feeling that his life was slipping out of his hands and he felt powerless to do anything about it. All the grow-ups in his life were making decisions for him and not consulting him about any of them.
Ever feel that way? Of course you have. We all do. Some of us feel it more frequently than others do. With enough time on this plan of existence, we learn there are more ways to feel powerful than we realized for such a long time.
My friend's husband, who is also a friend of mine, has been in prison in Iran for 3 weeks. His Canadian and Iranian passports have been taken from him, as have his credit cards, his ticket home and his money. He has been able to call his sister in Iran 3 times and claims to be doing alright.
What can we/I do? At first I felt hopeless. However, my awareness of the power and creativity I have as well as the power of numbers has increased considerably and I truly think we can do a the job, do it well, and do it in peace and love.
We can pray, meditate, vision, dream, send energy, get more and more people involved in focusing positive energy and safety surrounding him, holding him, protecting him.
This is not being in-active, foolish, or unrealistic. It is absolutely pro-active and powerful. Collectives of loving, gentle, caring people world wide who spend a few moment, an evening, a half hour, simply thinking of him, loving him, healing and empowering him. We can light candles, read poetry, listen to music, hold hands and have a moment of silence to focus our hopeful energy on him. At the same time, we can send soft, caring, changing, healing messages to his captors. Many of them are only doing what they have been told to do and are just as scared as he is and as we are.
Our fear is not useful for my friend. Our hope and positive, loving thoughts for him and for his jailers and tormentors is what will free him. Please join those of us who vision my friend walking off the plane into the loving, waiting, healing arms of those who long for his return.
I will write more about this later. Enough for now. Comments please. Warmly, Nancy Ross
At the time I didn't take it nearly as seriously as I maybe should have done. I think he was referring to feeling that his life was slipping out of his hands and he felt powerless to do anything about it. All the grow-ups in his life were making decisions for him and not consulting him about any of them.
Ever feel that way? Of course you have. We all do. Some of us feel it more frequently than others do. With enough time on this plan of existence, we learn there are more ways to feel powerful than we realized for such a long time.
My friend's husband, who is also a friend of mine, has been in prison in Iran for 3 weeks. His Canadian and Iranian passports have been taken from him, as have his credit cards, his ticket home and his money. He has been able to call his sister in Iran 3 times and claims to be doing alright.
What can we/I do? At first I felt hopeless. However, my awareness of the power and creativity I have as well as the power of numbers has increased considerably and I truly think we can do a the job, do it well, and do it in peace and love.
We can pray, meditate, vision, dream, send energy, get more and more people involved in focusing positive energy and safety surrounding him, holding him, protecting him.
This is not being in-active, foolish, or unrealistic. It is absolutely pro-active and powerful. Collectives of loving, gentle, caring people world wide who spend a few moment, an evening, a half hour, simply thinking of him, loving him, healing and empowering him. We can light candles, read poetry, listen to music, hold hands and have a moment of silence to focus our hopeful energy on him. At the same time, we can send soft, caring, changing, healing messages to his captors. Many of them are only doing what they have been told to do and are just as scared as he is and as we are.
Our fear is not useful for my friend. Our hope and positive, loving thoughts for him and for his jailers and tormentors is what will free him. Please join those of us who vision my friend walking off the plane into the loving, waiting, healing arms of those who long for his return.
I will write more about this later. Enough for now. Comments please. Warmly, Nancy Ross
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